In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading. -- Mos Def

Some suggestions for you :

Much about success is just the result of simply the ability to follow up, follow through, and finish what we started.

A home without books is a body without soul.

By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

When it comes to gossip, I have to readily admit men are as guilty as women.

Like the sun, life spread its light in all direction.

A three- year-old child is a being who almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm.

When you stop planning and preparing . . . you stop winning.

No reason is needed for loving.

A country's assets reside in the tinkerers, the hobbyists, and the risk-takers.

When I was playing before I retired, I never really understood the appreciation and the respect that people gave me. People had treated me like a god or something, and that was very embarrassing.

If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.

I have found the best way to give advice to children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.