Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I can, therefore I am.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Only the educated are free.
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.