An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Whatever you have, you must either use or lose. 

The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival.

The snake kills by squeezing very slowly. This is how the civilized world slowly, slowly pushed into the forest and takes away the world that used to be.

There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temple; my philosophy is kindness.

The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

In what way can a man believing in God cease believing due to his personal vanity? There are only two ways. The man should either begin to think himself a rival of God, or he may begin to believe himself to be God.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, are automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between.

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace.