Don’t under-rate the scope of your influence in your youth. Don’t think you have all the time to make a difference in this world. Recognize that both brown and green leaves fall to the ground.

Don’t cause wealth loss to your generation! Life is too short to be little. You have an impact to make on your generation and the time to start was yesterday.

Don’t wait till you have grey hair before you believe people will take you seriously because scientifically, grey hair is a sign of old age and not necessarily of wisdom.

My cardinal belief is that it is the natives of the land that till the land best, with passion and meaning. The advanced nations of this world built their countries by the sweat of their indigenes.

It is only by our hands that we can build this continent to the standard that we envy and admire in the advanced countries.

Come to Africa and help! Wherever you may be in the world, there is something you can give back to the continent that gave you a name and an identity, at least.

It isn't a bit of use my pretending I'm not crying, because I am... Pause to mop up. Better now.Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

I have shed enough tears over you lately and you don't deserve any of them

I fear that moments of quietude are on the endangered list

Expect the unexpected like a chain smoking, hard drinking, monochrome world dwelling Noir Detective

Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.

Looking about I see no cherry blossoms And no crimson leaves A straw-thatched hut by a bay In the autumn dusk.

[ Chadwick Boseman] is a remarkable actor, and he's a remarkable person.

Only fools seek power, and the greatest fools seek it through force.

Not only had he lost the only girl he'd ever loved, he'd lost her in duplicate, like some heartbroken but highly efficient civil servant.