Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Wherever you are - be all there.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you think you can do it, you can.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
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.