Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Know or listen to those who know.
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.