To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Only the educated are free.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.