When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat.

Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.

In this bright future you can't forget your past.

No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. 

The monotony and solitude of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. 

Science is global. Einstein's equation, E=mc2, has to reach everywhere. Science is a beautiful gift to humanity, we should not distort it. Science does not differentiate between multiple races.

I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot.

It is a fine game to play - the game of politics - and it is well worth waiting for a good hand before really plunging.