The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Never complain and never explain.
And, of course, in the Philippines there were so many thousands of Americans that were captured by the Japanese and held and who were rescued by Filipino Americans, or Filipinos I should say, and by U.S. troops near the close of the war.