“We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.”

History teaches us that unity is strength, and cautions us to submerge and overcome our differences in the quest for common goals, to strive, with all our combined strength, for the path to true African brotherhood and unity.

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

Let us set our goals too high; let us demand more of ourselves than we believe we possess.

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.

Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.

Knowledge is power. If it is not applied properly to create, let there be no doubts, it will destroy.

I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.

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

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

A well informed public opinion is essential to the growth of political and social awareness. Only he who is informed can comment intelligently on his nation’s development and only by such comments can errors be corrected and progress stimulated.

There is always something moving, brewing. There are ambitious people everywhere. Wicked people. The only thing to do is to deal with them with courage and decision. One must beware of uncertainty, weakness or conflicting emotions – they lead to defeat.

We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community.

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

If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.

Democracy, republics: What do these words signify?

Leadership does not mean domination.

The more you can escape from how horrible things really are, the less it’s going to bother you and then, the worse things get.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

Genius is what a man invents when he is looking for a way out.

The last century has produced an abundance of ideologies that pretend to be keys to history but are actually nothing but desperate efforts to escape responsibility.

Escape from the known to get to know yourself, converse with strangers to understand yourself, travel far from noise to find yourself, and listen to your silence to feel yourself. Because being away from everything pushes you to look inside, find your peace and live awake.

Fly me to the moon but desert me there that I might finally breathe.

And then I understood you were never my rescue yet always my escape.

Often times we think we need to escape to some far and distant place to find our peace, but it doesn’t take long to notice that you can not run from the chaos created in your mind; it will always follow.