To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Books are indispensable. You can move from hard copies to soft copies. But that’s about it.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

If you want to increase your success rate, double your failure rate. 

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

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.