Haile Selassie

The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.

Peace demands the united efforts of us all. Who can foresee what spark might ignite the fuse?

Do not worship me, I am not God. I’m only a man. I worship Jesus Christ.

The Ethiopian government’s use of the railway from Djibouti to Addis Ababa was, in practice, a hazardous regards transport of arms intended for the Ethiopian forces.

It is much easier to show compassion to animals. They are never wicked.

An awareness of our past is essential to the establishment of our personality and our identity as Africans.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Rummaging in our souls, we often dig up something that ought to have lain there unnoticed.

I am the captain of my soul.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.

You are perfect. An exquisitely fine work of art, labor of love, suspended in silence. Bejeweled, trembling, kissed by a breeze, mesmerized by your beauty. You await in silence, beckoning me to a silken-wrapped slumber.

You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

Every man passes his life in the search after friendship.

I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits not because recompense is a pleasure for them, but because obligation is a pain.

It is not he who gains the exact point in dispute who scores most in controversy – but he who has shown the better temper.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

The virtue in most request is conformity.