Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

Study history, study history. In history list all the secrets of statecraft.

Forget not that the grossest crime is to compromise with injustice and wrong. Remember the eternal law: You must give, if you want to get.

People in democratic nations seem adopt a laidback attitude after voting.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Money can't buy life.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and become the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

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

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.