Only the educated are free.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Know or listen to those who know.
It's always too early to quit.
Leap, and the net will appear.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Well done is better than well said.
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.