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

Place principle above all else.

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

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.

As man’s faculty attains higher level of development and sophistication, so do his wants in life.

Democracy, Republic: What do these words signify? What have they changed in the world? Have men become better, more loyal, kinder? Are the people happier? All goes on as before, as always. Illusions, illusions.

Outside the kingdom of the Lord there is no nation which is greater than any other. God and history will remember your judgment.

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

No one should question the faith of others, for no human being can judge the ways of God.

Today I stand before the world organization which has succeeded to the mantle discarded by its discredited predecessor.

Feel the needs of others more than your own.

The Charter of the United Nations expresses the noblest aspirations of man.

Many discouraging hours will arise before the rainbow of accomplished goals will appear on the horizon.

There is nothing as precious to man as a sound mind in a sound body and it is essential that the physical well being of our people merits as much attention as its spiritual welfare

Any who may wish to profit himself alone from the knowledge given him, rather than serve others through the knowledge he has gained from learning, is betraying knowledge and rendering it worthless.

Until all Africans stand and speak as free human beings, equal in the eyes of the Almighty; until that day, the African continent shall not know peace.

It is important that spiritual advancement must keep pace with material advancement.

We are the storytelling animal.

My great forte in killing buffaloes was to get them circling by riding my horse at the head of the herd and shooting their leaders. Thus the brutes behind were crowded to the left, so that they were soon going round and round.

Thirst teaches all animals to drink, but drunkenness belongs only to man.

Be more than man, or thou’rt less than an ant.

I can say with sincerity that I like cats. A cat is an animal which has more human feelings than almost any other.

Take a cat, nourish it well with milk and tender meat, make it a couch of silk.

Cat said, ‘I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.’

People are bloody ignorant apes.