Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
You never know what motivates you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Who seeks shall find.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
We know that a man can read Goethe or Rilke in the evening, that he can play Bach and Schubert, and go to his day's work at Auschwitz in the morning.