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.

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

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. 

Yellow journalism is turning into such a deep shade of yellow that it could put jaundice to shame.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remove ourselves.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst. 

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything.

In a consecrated calm, forgotten yet. Of the keen heart that hastens to forget old longings in fulfilling new desires.

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall.