You never know what motivates you.
Know or listen to those who know.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Never complain and never explain.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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.