1. “It is no good telling yourself that one day you will wish you had never made that change; it is no good anticipating regrets. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.”
2. “Who thinks it just to be judged by a single error?”
3. “Memory is a drug. Memory can hold you against your strength and against your will.”
4. “Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead.”
5. “The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.”
6. “The way to find a needle in a haystack is to sit down.”
7. “Thee are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.”
8. “I learned what every dreaming child needs to know, that no horizon is so far you cannot get above it or beyond it.”
9. “Silence is never so impenetrable as when the whisper of steel on paper strives to pierce it.”
10. “Success breeds confidence.”
11. “If a man has any greatness i him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.”
12. “No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.”
13. “You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.”
14. “In view of this and other things, I demand forgiveness for being so obviously impressed with my own parents.”
15. “If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.”
