"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today"

"Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us"

"I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did but people will never forget how you made them feel"

"I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me"

"Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt"

"The moment you have protected an individual, you have protected society"

"Every form of true education trains the student in self-reliance"

"The purpose of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character, that is the goal of true education"

"Education develops the intellect; and the intellect distinguishes man from other creatures. It is education that enables man to harness nature and utilize her resources for the well-being and improvement of his life"

"Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember you have within you the strength, the passion, and the patience to reach for the stars to change the world"

"A nation which refuses to learn from foreign culture is nothing but a nation of idiots and lunatics.. But to learn from other cultures does not mean we should abandon our own"

"I believe that education is power…. being able to communicate with other people is power” “I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one’s own destiny"

"Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love for what you are doing"

"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside of you"

"We don’t have education, we have inspiration. If I was educated, I will be a damn fool."

"Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separated one person from another"

"Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defense spending there is"

"82% of prisoners in the United States are high-school dropouts. A high school dropout between the ages of 30 and 34 is two-thirds more likely to be in jail, or to have been in jail, or be dead."