The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Wherever you are - be all there.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.