By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Always desire to learn something useful.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Only the educated are free.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.