If you're going through hell, keep going.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's always too early to quit.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.