Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

After a storm comes a calm.

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

To be a good loser is to learn how to win.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Only the educated are free.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.