You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Only the educated are free.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.