On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problems.

The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty.

Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. 

Corruption may affect our body as well as our mind.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit.

एक विमान जमीन पर हमेशा सुरक्षित रहता है लेकिन यह इसके लिए नहीं बनाया जाता है। महान ऊंचाई प्राप्त करने के लिए हमेशा जीवन में कुछ सार्थक जोखिम लेना होगा।

There is no end to the adventure that we can have if only we seek them with your eyes open.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.