| "Knowledge has outstripped character development, and the young today are given an education rather than an upbringing." Ilya Ehrenburg |
| "The winner's edge is not in a gifted birth, a high IQ, or in talent. The winner's edge is all in the attitude, not aptitude. Attitude is the criterion for success." Denis Waitley |
| "Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone." Deborah Tannen |
| "Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues." Phillips Brooks |
| "The Internet provides a delivery system for pathological states of mind." Phillip Adams |
| "Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought." Karl Jaspers |
| "Nature provides exceptions to every rule." Margaret Fuller |
| "A garden requires patient labour and attention. Plants do not grow merely to satisfy ambitions or to fulfill good intentions. They thrive because someone expended effort on them." Liberty Hyde Bailey |
| "Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets." Michael Korda |
| "I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers." Kahlil Gibran |
| "It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe." Muhammad Ali |
| "Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid." Thomas Carlyle |
| "Every man has three characters: that which he shows, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has." Alphonse Karr |
| "Preoccupation with money is the great test of small natures, but only a small test of great ones." Nicolas de Chamfort |
| "He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying." Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world that it leaves to its children." Dietrich Bonhoeffer |
| "Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won't get run over." Miriam Makeba |
| "Give me the comma of imperfect striving, thus to find zest in the immediate living. Ever the reaching but never the gaining, ever the climbing but never the attaining of the mountain top." Winston Graham |
| "Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse." Winston Churchill |
| "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." Maya Angelou |
| "I've always felt it was not up to anyone else to make me give my best." Akeem Olajuwon |
| "Use of brains begets wealth." African proverb |
| "Two ants do not fail to pull one grasshopper." African proverb |
| "The hen with baby chicks doesn't swallow the worm." African proverb |
| "There is no one who became rich because he broke a holiday, no one became fat because he broke a fast." Ethiopian proverb |
| "One who relates with a corrupt person likewise gets corrupted." African proverb |
| "Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it." African proverb |
| "Hot water does not burn down the house." African proverb |
| "The market is not attended from a single road." African proverb |
| "You suffer from smoke produced by the firewood you fetched yourself." African proverb |
