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

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

There's a way to do it better - find it.

Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. 

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.

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?

Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right. 

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary.