"Instruction does much, but encouragement everything...." - Quote by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

“Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?”

“Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them.”

“A man's name is not like a mantle which merely hangs about him...but a perfectly fitting garment, which, like the skin, has grown over him, at which one cannot rake and scrape without injuring the man himself.”

“Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.”

“Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.”

“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”

“You can't learn to write in college. It's a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do - and they don't. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don't want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who's the bore of all time.”

“True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth.”

“On the first day of school, my teacher, Miss Mdingane, gave each of us an English name and said that from thenceforth that was the name we would answer to in school. This was the custom among Africans in those days and was undoubtedly due to the British bias of our education.”