The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

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.

You can be the ugliest man in the world but once you got money, you can have all the women in the world.

Love and hate, despite their polar opposites, are both feelings that are induced by passion. I can handle that. It’s the indifference I don’t know how to process.

The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of these atoms is talking moonshine.

Profit is like oxygen, food, water, and blood for the body; they are not the point of life, but without them, there is no life.

The American people want economic prosperity, high-quality goods and low prices, all of which I support.

My daughter and I are so close. She just turned six. I can describe anything she's doing, the least little thing, and I get all excited about it. It's like medicine.

One should never learn from one's mistakes. Making the same mistakes, over and over again, is a source of unremitting pleasure.

Great leaders don’t try to be perfect. They try to be themselves. And that’s what makes them great.

Love will subsist on wonderfully little hope but not altogether without it.

I was just thinking how unfortunate it'd be to be a fat girl named Candy.