Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
After a storm comes a calm.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Well done is better than well said.
Know or listen to those who know.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The memoirs that have come out of Africa are sometimes startlingly beautiful, often urgent, and essentially life-affirming, but they are all performances of courage and honesty.