Small nations are like indecently dressed women. They tempt the evil-minded.

You cannot develop people. You must allow people to develop themselves.

Education is not a way to escape poverty, it is a way of fighting it.

Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections.

If real development is to take place, the people have to be involved.

Independence cannot be real if a nation depends upon gifts.

There is no time to waste. We must either unite now or perish.

If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.

No nation has the right to make decisions for another nation; no people for another people.

In Tanzania, it was more than one hundred tribal units which lost their freedom; it was one nation that regained it.

In Tanganyika we believe that only evil, Godless men would make the color of a mans skin the criteria for granting him civil rights.

Change is not for its own sake, it’s the means to the end, not the end.

The literature of impotence is about to develop beyond measure.

I understand your actions more than your conversations.

Overstimulation has been the real drawback. I need to find ways to stop thinking about analysis of algorithms, in order to do various other things that human beings ought to do.

I believe every translation is a process in which something is lost in the original precisely so that something is gained in the new text.

To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all.

There are people who love those who agree with them and admire them, but have no time for those who oppose and dislike them. A Christian’s love must be universal!

A plate is distasteful to a cat, a newspaper still worse; they like to eat sticky pieces of meat sitting on a cushioned chair or a nice Persian rug.

As an actor, you travel so much. It isn't great for a marriage.

You like to think that it's something you created, but secretly you know that you had some kind of help, or somebody gave this to you.