We see a new Ethiopia, a new Africa, stretching her hands of influence throughout the world, teaching man the way of life and peace, The Way to God.

Never forget that intelligence rules the world and ignorance carries the burden. Therefore, remove yourself as far as possible from ignorance and seek as far as possible to be intelligent.

Always try to associate with people from whom you can learn something. All the knowledge that you want is in the world, and all you have to do is go and seek it.

The Black skin is not a badge of shame, but rather a glorious symbol of national greatness.

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.

If we as a people realized the greatness from which we came we would be less likely to disrespect ourselves.

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.

Intelligence rules the world, ignorance carries the burden.

If you get up everyday and you don't learn you are a fool

The man who is not able to develop and use his mind is bound to be the slave of the other man who uses his mind

Do not remove the kinks from your hair--remove them from your brain.

Faith is intrinsic to humanity and the freedom to practice one's religion is a right no power can deny

To waste time is to lose life

Like an energy even an opportunity cannot be destroyed, if you don't accept, it goes to someone else.

She had resolved to never take another step backward.

You think you know someone by looking at his face but what can one face say about the thousand thoughts behind those eyes.

If everything is an illusion. To experiment is to find out what's real.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

Like jilted and disappointed lovers, some of my students just want to be left alone.

The inability to predict outliers implies the inability to predict the course of history

Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration.