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.

We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. 

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

Fan the smoking flame of hilarity with the wings of friendship; and pass the rose wine.

We make war that we may live in peace.

Magicians prosper because we are willing to be fooled.

We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

If you aren't playing well, the game isn't as much fun. When that happens I tell myself just to go out and play as I did when I was a kid. 

Men, money and material cannot by themselves bring victory or freedom. We must have the motive-power that will inspire us to brave deeds and heroic exploits."

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

Materialism and commercialisation are destroying the basic human nature.