We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

A house built on granite and strong foundations, not even the onslaught of pouring rain, gushing torrents and strong winds will be able to pull down.

Observe that anyone who dies for his country is a fortunate man, but death takes what it wants, indiscriminately, in peace-time as well as in war. It is better to die with freedom than without it.

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

As is commonly said, ‘to start anything is simple; to develop it and bring it to a successful culmination takes great effort.’

A purely materialistic art would be like a tree which is expected to bear fruit without flowering and to sacrifice grace and beauty for mere utility

We have finished the job. What shall we do with the tools?

Unity should be the cornerstone of relations

The fruits of one’s sweat and mental labour are always rewarding

Every labourer is a father, his labour is his child. Choose your project carefully and achieve it worthily

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

Place principle above all else.

Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'

There is no safer anchorage for our learning, our lives, and our public actions than that provided by Divine teachings.

It is both the duty and responsibility of the world's fortunate few to help fulfil the legitimate aspirations of the unfortunate many

We must make progress slowly so as to preserve the progress we have already made.

It is not only war that can stop war but men of goodwill, conscious of their mission can deal with such deadly enemy.

A good leader... maintains a balance between emotional drive and sound thinking.