"For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."

"It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."

"It is a profound truth that breathe deeply, anchor your attention in this breath, and let the storm pass — an essential principle for the reflective life."

"It is a essential truth that great leaders cultivate leaders, not merely followers."

"'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know."

"In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word."

"Nature fits all her children with something to do, He who would write and can't write, can surely review."

"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."