Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

Virtue is persecuted more by the wicked than it is loved by the good.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always pluck a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.

Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.

I have altogether failed to comprehend as to how undue pride or vain-gloriousness could ever stand in the way of a man believing in God.

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

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat.

You know, in the film making business no one ever gave you anything.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.