A manager may be tough and practical, squeezing out, while the going is good, the last ounce of profit and dividend . . .

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.

A man may be a tough, concentrated, successful money-maker and never contribute to his country anything more than a horrible example.

I did but see her passing by and yet I love her till I die.

When people meet my wife they think better of me. They say: "With a wife like that, he can't be as bad as we thought".

What Great Britain calls the Far East is to us the near north.

Thinking ahead, what really happens to us will depend on how many people we have who are of the great and sober and dynamic middle-class - the strivers, the planners, the ambitious ones.

Never forget posterity when devising a policy. Never think of posterity when making a speech.

"I pay my taxes," says somebody, as if that were an act of virtue instead of one of compulsion.

One thing about bureaucrats is that they never swallow their young. Leave them alone and you'll find them increasing every year.

Wanasayansi wanasema hakuna Mungu kwa sababu hawawezi kumwona wala kumgusa. Lakini nao hawana akili kwa sababu hawawezi kuiona wala kuigusa.

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

I operate better with education and awareness, like I think all of us do.

Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready.

Take the understanding of the East and the knowledge of the West-and then seek.

Shootouts are not gunfights of honor, they're gang wars and racial riots.

The recession is everywhere. We need to be heard. Wouldn't it be great if there could be more referendums so we could have regular voting on specific points?

The nation voted us to power to see unity and communal harmony, not for any division or communality.

A new generation of more educated people started to be active. Then society required freedom, society demanded freedom.

The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.