The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I didn't read.

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.  

When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.

I firmly believe that unless one has tasted the bitter pill of failure, one cannot aspire enough for success. 

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. 

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Disagreement is something normal.

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 body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.