Africa has her mysteries, and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

I want to be the white man’s brother, not his brother-in-law.

Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded.

To think ill of mankind, and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.

Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.

Many need no other provocation to enmity than that they find themselves excelled.

There is no foreign land; it is the traveler only that is foreign.

When you name yourself, you always name another.

I am a man: I consider nothing human alien to me.