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

We should accept diversity in culture and tradition and coexist peacefully.

You must always remember that to lead, one must first learn to follow.

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?

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

As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form.

Love isn’t material. It’s energy. We experience it as kindness, giving, mercy, compassion, peace, joy, acceptance, non-judgment, joining and intimacy.

If we wish to have the light, we must keep the sun; if we wish to keep our forests we must keep our trees; if we wish to keep our perfumes, we must keep our flowers- and if we wish to keep our rights, then we must keep our God.

This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

The world will try to tell you that you need stuff to be somebody. Don’t listen.

Art is a refining and evocative translation of the materials of the world.

There’s an inherent message in my work relating to recycling and the nature of value, but my artistic inspiration is fired by the qualities within the raw materials.

How you spend your time is far more important than all the material possessions you may own or positions you may attain.