May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

I am ready to have dialogue with the concerned parties once the nation is calm and the political temperatures are lowered enough for constructive and productive engagement.

I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda.

The era of 'anything goes' is gone for ever.

There is no room for communists in Kenya.

My government will respect the will of the people.

Government will no longer be run on the whims of individuals.

All around us is a nothing that stretches on for infinity. We humans can barely comprehend that. If we comprehend it we are rarely pleased.

My world was very limited in size and experience. Small things took on extra importance, at least to a child.

I'm not afraid of too many things and I got that invincible kind of attitude from my father.

As people get more desperate, history suggests that they're not going to rise in a mighty proletarian tidal wave and wash away their oppressors. They're gonna turn on each other.

Before I start writing, before I have an idea of where and when the story happens, I research it thoroughly.

All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

It is when their age of passions is past that great men produce their masterpieces, just as it is after volcanic eruptions that the soil is most fertile.

A superintending power to maintain the Universe in its course and order.

Anything there is that I can do for you, I will do for you; anything there is that I cannot do, I will learn to do.