Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
After a storm comes a calm.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
I can, therefore I am.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
In fact, I believe that we need better sex education in our own culture, here in America, so that young folk learn about things like venereal disease before they encounter it.