The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Only the educated are free.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Never complain and never explain.
Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.