If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.

A person is a person only through other persons.

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

The axe forgets the blows it dealt, but the tree remembers every scar.

Until the lion has his own storyteller, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.

When the roots of a tree begin to decay, it spreads death to the highest branches.

However long the night may linger, the dawn will surely break.

Words are like eggs: once dropped from the nest, they cannot be gathered back.

If you close your eyes to the facts of the trail, you will learn them through painful collisions.

A roaring lion captures no prey.

Wisdom is like a colossal baobab tree: no single person's arms can embrace it alone.

Do not look where you fell, but where you slipped.

When spider webs unite in harmony, they can tie up an elephant.

The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.

The river that forgets its ancestral source will dry up in the desert sand.

Patience can cook a stone until it becomes soft and sweet.

A single tree that falls in the forest makes a deafening crash, but a thousand trees growing in silence make no sound at all.

The foot that walks gathers thorns, but the foot that sits home in fear gathers only dust.

Do not insult the crocodile while your feet are still wading in the river.

A single bracelet does not jingle; it takes two to make music.

The sun does not forget a village simply because it is small and hidden in the hills.

When the rhythm of the drum changes, so must the steps of the dance.

No matter how high the eagle soars into the sky, it must return to the earth to drink water.

When an elder dies, an entire library burns to the ground.

In the season of crisis, the wise build bridges while the foolish build dams.

A bird that hops off the earth only to land on an anthill is still on the ground.

The teeth are smiling, but is the heart laughing with true joy?

He who learns must also teach; he who gets must also give.

Hold a true and faithful friend with both your hands.

The ruin of a great nation begins in the neglected homes of its people.

Peace is costly and demands sacrifice, but it is infinitely cheaper than the bitter price of war.

The eye never carries the load; it only watches and fears how much the head must bear.

If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending the night with a mosquito.

Rain beats upon the leopard's skin for days, but it does not wash away a single spot.

The lizard that jumped safely from the towering iroko tree said he would praise himself if nobody else did.

He who conceals his sickness from the healer cannot expect the medicine to work.

Even the finest cooking pot will never produce a feast without fire beneath it.

Do not look for the morning bird in the nest it abandoned yesterday.

A friend who stands with you during the dry drought is worth more than ten thousand who celebrate at the harvest feast.

He who travels alone at night can boast of being the bravest warrior, but morning light reveals the footprints of the lion.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

What you seek is seeking you.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

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

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.