To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Who seeks shall find.
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.