We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

The education I received was a British education, in which British ideas, British culture, British institutions, are automatically assumed to be superior. There was no such thing as African culture.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold.

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. 

For good or for ill, air mastery is today the supreme expression of military power and fleets and armies, however vital and important, must accept a subordinate rank. 

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. 

I believe life is an intelligent thing: that things aren't random.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters.