You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you think you can do it, you can.
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.