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“The wrong man is not always wrong because of his wrong actions, often he is wrong because of no actions.”

“A slip of the foot may injure your body, but a slip of the tongue will injure your bond.”

“The job of feets is walking, but their hobby is dancing.”

“Politeness is the first thing people lose once they get the power.”

“All worries are less with wine.”

“I write because the security of your love allows me to develop my craft without concerning myself with trivialities — as if your love could be any more complete. But I write, in the first place, because of you, my muse. I write for your green eyes to glance at my humble words and for the pleasure of hearing you utter them.”

“Father has a strengthening character like the sun and mother has a soothing temper like the moon.”

“Simplicity saves strength.”

“Be a worthy worker and work will come.”

“Common man's patience will bring him more happiness than common man's power.”

“Great losses are great lessons.”

“Take care of your costume and your confidence will take care of itself.”

“All I need to do is place my pen against paper and your love writes for me.”

“Health is hearty, health is harmony, health is happiness.”

“Networking isn't how many people you know, it's how many people know you.”

“Music shouldn't be just a tune, it should be a touch.”

“The smell of the sweat is not sweet, but the fruit of the sweat is very sweet.”

“A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.”

“War is not just the shower of bullets and bombs from both sides, it is also the shower of blood and bones on both sides.”

“During a conversation, listening is as powerful as loving.”

“Characters of fiction are authors’ children and critics’ neighbors, even if we perceive them as inadequate, nevertheless, we should appreciate the fact that they are the products of someone’s imagination, however limited that might be. It’s not often that you come across a book from which you could quote much,”

“The decision is your own voice, an opinion is the echo of someone else's voice.”

“Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.”

“If you can't impress them with your argument, impress them with your actions.”

“Making art requires a degree of intentionality. All works of art require a contemplative individual drawing from their bank of knowledge and immersion into the realms of memory and imagination in order to make an outward, communicative expression. Only human beings can draw upon the dialectical tension between memory and imagination to create artistic renderings.”

“In the business people with expertise, experience and evidence will make more profitable decisions than people with instinct, intuition and imagination.”

“Create a world in front of your readers where they can taste, smell, touch, hear, see, and move. Or else they are likely going to move on to another book.”

“Dreams are good at playing with your memory. They love leaving no trace behind and hate to show up once again in the morning.”

“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle readers, but I do not make so to the point of being so complex that they will lose interest in the plot. And that for me is the essence of every great literature around the world, and that’s been so for ages. (....)Some were inpired by real life characters, some other books I wrote are hybrid fiction/non-fiction, so I pretty much get inspired by people who have lived, and even who are still breathing among us… so don’t get discouraged if I didn’t mention your personality traits yet. I might even have your name over my books, I must some day…”

“A marijuana high can enhance core human mental abilities. It can help you to focus, to remember, to see new patterns, to imagine, to be creative, to introspect, to empathically understand others, and to come to deep insights. If you don’t find this amazing you have lost your sense of wonder. Which, by the way, is something a high can bring back, too.”

“If thinking should precede acting, then acting must succeed thinking.”

“In your name, the family name is at last because it's the family name that lasts.”

“Essentially we are all verbs but because of the ego (or how society labels us) most people view themselves as nouns. When we apply this limitation to the creative arts, or more specifically writing, we can observe that writers will create their best art when they consider themselves simply as verbs, as in, "writers write." But if writers experience fame and fortune at a young age they will often fall victim to their ego, as in they have now been elevated by the masses to a noun. "I am now a writer, as accepted by the objective test of society because I have made a sufficient amount of money at it." The noun therefore has definitions or boundaries and therefore limitations, thus it is highly likely that the future art created will not be as free or powerful in the minds of the readers or observers. This irony applies not only to art but to most aspects connected to an individual in their lives.”

“Rich can live better than poor but they cannot live without poor.”

“Education makes your maths better, not necessarily your manners.”

“He who sacrifices his respect for love basically burns his body to obtain the light.”

“Seeing the mud around a lotus is pessimism, seeing a lotus in the mud is optimism.”

“Respect cannot be inherited, respect is the result of right actions.”

“Parents expect only two things from their children, obedience in their childhood and respect in their adulthood.”

“In a democracy, there will be more complaints but less crisis, in a dictatorship more silence but much more suffering.”

“For what was it about books that once finished left the reader in a bit of a haze and made them reread the last few sentences in order to continue the ringing in their hearts a while longer, so as not to let the silence illumine the fact that reading, they had gained something — distance, a lesson, a companion, a new world — but now, after the last full stop, they had lost something palpable and felt a little emptier than before.”

“She often found herself caught in a rapture for minutes at a time, sometimes longer. But someone observed that she was never enraptured while she was cooking breakfast. If she were, she might burn it. Eternity can dovetail into our practical lives. It's possible for us to manage the toast and the rapture.”

“Majina ya vitabu yanapaswa kuchaguliwa kwa mantiki na kwa makini ya hali ya juu mno, kwa sababu ni miongoni mwa vitu vya kwanza watu wanavyoviona na kuvisoma. Watu wakivutiwa na jina la kitabu, au mwandishi; kitu cha pili watakachovutiwa kuangalia ni dibaji, kusudi wasome muhtasari wa kitabu kizima. Kwa hiyo dibaji inapaswa iandikwe kwa mantiki na kwa makini ileile iliyotumika katika kuchagua jina la kitabu. Lengo la jina la kitabu na dibaji ni kuishawishi hadhira kusoma kitabu na kukifurahia.”