In the last analysis, our national future depends upon our national character that is, whether it is spiritually or materially minded.

Property may be destroyed and money may lose its purchasing power; but, character, health, knowledge and good judgement will always be in demand under all conditions.

It takes a person who is wide awake to make his dream come true.

More people should learn to tell their dollars where to go instead of asking them where they went.

Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.

If things go wrong, don't go with them.

People would rather be shown how valuable you are, not told.

The successful man is the one who had the chance and took it.

If things are not going well with you, begin your effort at correcting the situation by carefully examining the service you are rendering, and especially the spirit in which you are rendering it.

Only religion can prevent democratic rule from developing into mob rule. A nation can prosper only as its citizens are religious, intelligent, capable of service and eager to render it.

When we are flat on our backs there is no way to look but up.

From our primary schools to secondary schools, to tertiary institutions, there must be a mass campaign to educate our people in the value of labour.

When the man is at home his standing in society is well known and quietly taken but when he is abroad it is problematical and is dependent on the success of his manners.

What is one person's pleasure is another's poison.

In Egypt, the cats...afford evidence that animal nature is not altogether intractable, but that when well-treated they are good at remembering kindness.

No one should have to get a PhD in economics to survive in this economy.

You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that.

The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.

I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.

Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along.

The thing that binds us together is the commonality of our dreams, not our skin tone.