Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Never complain and never explain.
Only the educated are free.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Know or listen to those who know.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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.