There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesterdays are burried deep-leave it anyway except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can.

The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.

all the science of flying has been captured in the breadth of an instrument board, but not the religion of it.

The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing