Take every penny you have set aside for aid for Tanzania and spend it in the UK, explaining to people the facts and causes of poverty.

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.

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

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

Corrupt and incompetent police officers have a long history of being protected by their colleagues, police internal affairs and the government.

How easy it is to do wrong when there is someone else to blame.

I don't want to be famous. I like to be able to sit in a cafe and watch the world go by and observe people.

The potential for Twitter is spectacular and great.

I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts.

To laugh is proper to man.

Youre shooting yourself in the foot if you isolate or disempower the moderates.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

I wasn't sure I wanted to be an actor.

Anger that has no limit causes terror, and unseasonable kindness does away with respect. Be not so severe as to cause disgust, nor so lenient as to make people presume.