Quotes from Mokokoma Mokhonoana

If human beings were really progressive creatures, then all boys would be smarter, healthier, and, wealthier, than their grandfathers.

If being seen as worthy of employing is the best that school does for the schooled, then school is overrated.

Back then: to be paid more, one needed to increase the number of things that are by him known. Today: to be paid more, one needs to increase the number of people by whom he is known.

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

Most sane human beings' chances of being alive in a thousand years' time are a hundred times higher than their chances of being sincerely happy for at least ten consecutive days.

Science gave us forensics. Law gave us crime.

In the Bible, a woman was made from a man. In real life, a man is made from a woman.

People who smile while they are alone used to be called insane, until we invented smartphones and social media.

He who frowns when they say that he sucks shouldn't smile when they say that he rocks.

Needs are imposed by nature. Wants are sold by society.

We all have problems. Or rather, everyone has at least one thing that they regard as a problem.

Being in a hurry is the father of stress and worry.

A social critic is someone whose work revolves around where and how our successes are failing us.

We owe some of our successes to people who did not want to help us more than we do to those who have helped us.

For a sane person to sincerely be happy that someone has succeeded, they have to either be profiting or likely to profit from that person's success, or be that person.

Some people talk about other people's failures with so much pleasure that you would swear they are talking about their own successes.

Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

You know you made it, when your friends tell their friends that you are their friend.

You know you made it, when people you know, tell people they know, that you know them.

Wealth seldom fails to breed the fear of poverty.

Some people are each envious of the person they used to be.

He who fails to achieve a dream set by himself is more honorable than he who succeeds in achieving a dream set by his society.

Success is subjective. Your dream bank balance could be someone else's nightmare.

Most people do not want much. All they want is to be envied by most people.