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

This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself.

There is no power or authority without responsibility, and he who accepts the one cannot escape or evade the other.

Knowledge paves the way to Love, and Love in its turn fosters understanding, and leads one along the path of great common achievements.

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

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.

Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.

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.’

The true leader is a different sort; he seeks effective activity which has a truly beneficient purpose. He inspires others to follow in his wake, and holding aloft the torch of wisdom, leads the way for society to realize its genuinely great aspirations.

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

The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

A man who says “I have learned enough and will learn no further” should be considered as knowing nothing at all.

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

A well organized education should not be one which prepares students for a good remuneration alone. It should be one that can help and guide them towards acquiring clear thinking, a fruitful mind, and an elevated spirit.

Unity should be the cornerstone of relations.

He [the Almighty] taught us that all human beings are equal regardless of sex, national origin and tribe. And He also taught us all who seek Him shall find Him.

A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.

Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is “established by the State”.

Women’s Wear Daily can do more than any other publication to establish a designer.

Short term volatility is greatest at turning points and diminishes as a trend becomes established.

If we care about universal principles such as freedom, democracy and the rule of law, we cannot leave them to the care of market forces; we must establish some other institutions to safeguard them.

The first 50 years of the cinema were absolutely great years. Original minds were at work establishing the ways to tell a story. And what is happening now is a copying, a pastiche-ing of what was done by great men.

I don’t think individual media outlets will regulate. There are such things as self-regulatory organizations that will look at the members of the industry and their behavior and establish standards of behavior.

God designed the world in such a way that everything functions on principles. Principles are eternal laws established and inherent in creation that make creation function.