Make sure that you are fully aware of the work environment which will suit your ‘work style’ the best.

Those who work hard and constantly seek to be visible to their superiors, those who showcase their hard work, are the ones who advance to positions of greater power and responsibility.

Many of us have this mind-set which considers self-promotion a taboo.

Move out of your comfort zone, develop those necessary skills and go all out for that much needed advancement!

Use social events, social networks and every get-together at work to build a stronger brand YOU!

Accept the fact that you are fully responsible for your career.

Put time and effort to promote your personal brand.

Information is the key to success, anywhere and everywhere. Right information matters the most. This applies to your work place too.

Understand that success is not an accident, but a planned event.

A lot happens just beneath the surface.

Formal business situations are likely to be the least revealing because these are the times when all of us are most likely to have our ‘game faces' on.

Great humility brings great grace.

I like how you smile and how you laugh. I like how you love and defend your family and I like how you're trying to love mine. I love how you trust. But mostly, Emily, I love you.

Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet.

I promise, before God and my community, to seek reforms so that the powerful and corrupt are no longer above the law.

You must do your damdest and win.

As in an organ from one blast of wind To many a row of pipes the soundboard breathes.

Often the wisdom of the body Clarifies the despair of the spirit.

I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine.

You must be a lotus, unfolding its petals when the sun rises in the sky, unaffected by the slush where it is born or even the water which sustains it!

The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.