Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them.

Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think.

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time.

Never complain and never explain.

Finality is not the language of politics.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

The courage of one can change the course of all.

Worrying about outcomes over which I have no control is punishing myself before the universe has decided whether I ought to be punished.

Soon I realized that if beauty equalled forgiveness, I was never going to be forgiven.

If there are people who yearn for the days when Saddam Hussein was in power, then I am not among them.

I tried to make a point of doing things outside the box, of not having basketball consume me.

Young African - millennials really love Barack Obama.

When they prove something wrong you believed in so long, you go crazy.

Silence too can be indiscreet.

I write in the mornings, in the bright daylight. But I get most of my good ideas after the sun has gone down and the dark is on the land.