Never complain and never explain.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
I can, therefore I am.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
All I knew about Ethiopia was from a few records that I like, as well as what I read about the famine. But you get there and it's another world. It's filled with art and music and poetry and intellectuals and writers - all kinds of people.