Never complain and never explain.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Only the educated are free.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.