The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Only the educated are free.
You never know what motivates you.
Never complain and never explain.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak and at last some crisis shows what we have become.