“All men who have turned out worth anything have had the chief hand in their own education.”

“She couldn't have found anything nastier to say if she had thought it out with both hands for a fortnight.”

“Let most men have a finger, and they will have the whole hand before you know. Let a clan chief have a finger, and he will have the entire arm.”

“Anything worth having is worth fighting for.”

“In any case paramount traditional heads of provinces should, in my view, welcome the fact that their people who have had education and experience can relieve them as in the traditional line of delegation from the many functions the chiefs are required to do now, particularly if they are public servants or have not had the background of education and service as their people.”

“For education among all kinds of men always has had, and always will have, an element of danger and revolution, of dissatisfaction and discontent.”

“In a sense [Lawrence] is the patron saint of all writers who have never had an Oxford or Cambridge education who are somewhat despised by those who have.”

“A man is educated and turned out to work. But a woman is educated — and turned out to grass.”

“You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.”

“Never risking anything meant never having or doing or being anything either. Life is risk, it turned out.”