“You are an uncut gemstone of priceless value. Cut and polish your potential with knowledge, skills and service and you will be in great demand throughout your life.”

Your best friend should bring out the best in you.

Out of need springs desire, and out of desire springs the energy and the will to win.

The world needs role models, instead of critics.

Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others.

Your habits will determine your quality of life.

When you are in the valley, keep your goal firmly in view and you will get the renewed energy to continue the climb.

Success is a process that continues, not a status that you reach. If you are alive, there are lessons to be learned.

One characteristic of winners is they always look upon themselves as a do it yourself project.

Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience.

You always project on the outside how you feel on the inside.

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.

The truly successful person inspires others to do more than they have thought possible for themselves.

Better to seek change by inspiration, than out of desperation.

Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision.

The less you try to impress, the more impressive you are.

There is no use if knowledge grows while desires multiply. It makes one a hero in words and a zero in action.

Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.

True knowledge is that which establishes harmony and synthesis between ience on the one hand and spirituality and ethics on the other.

Real education should enable one to utilise the knowledge one has acquired to meet the challenges of life and to make all human beings happy as far as possible.

The essence of religion is the knowledge of God which is eternal life. That and nothing less than that is religion. Everything else is on the surface, is superfluous save for the needs of men.

The end of knowledge is wisdom The end of culture is perfection The end of wisdom is freedom The end of education is character. And character consists of eagerness to renounce one’s selfish greed.

Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process.

We learn much during our sleep, and the knowledge thus gained slowly filters into the physical brain, and is occasionally impressed upon it as a vivid and illuminative dream.