To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
After a storm comes a calm.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
There is no room for legal hair-splitting when it comes to the humane treatment of detainees - not in a nation founded on the rule of law and respect for human rights.
Our party is a diverse one, as is my home state of Illinois.