The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
You never know what motivates you.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.