If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

Those who know how to think need no teachers. 

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.

If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

I think technology really increase human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.

I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time.

Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease.