Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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.