Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

After a storm comes a calm.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Only the educated are free.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

If you think you can do it, you can.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.