Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

After a storm comes a calm.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

If you think you can do it, you can.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

I can, therefore I am.