“All men have stars, but they are not the same things for different people.”

The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them.

A man’s age is something impressive, it sums up his life.

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

Sometimes we behave as though there was something more important than life. But what?

I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

All grown-ups were once children… but only few of them remember it.

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

The essential things in life are seen, not with the eyes but with the heart.

Experience will guide us to the rules. You cannot make rules precede practical experience.

I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind.

To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible.

You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed.

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.

If you come at four in the afternoon, I’ll begin to be happy by three.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others.

The tree is a slow, enduring force straining to win the sky.

It is ironic to think that man might determine his own future by something so seemingly trivial as the choice of an insect spray.

If you ask men why they did a good job, they’ll say, ‘I’m awesome. Obviously. Why are you even asking?’ If you ask women why they did a good job, what they’ll say is someone helped them, they got lucky, they worked really hard.

The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.

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.

The chief difference between free capitalism and State socialism seems to be this: that under the former a man pursues his own advantage openly, frankly and honestly, whereas under the latter he does so hypocritically and under false pretenses.

In an age when man has forgotten his origins and is blind even to his most essential needs for survival, water along with other resources has become the victim of his indifference.

The ‘control of nature’ is a phrase conceived in arrogance, born of the Neanderthal age of biology and philosophy, when it was supposed that nature exists for the convenience of man.

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.