After a storm comes a calm.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
But picketing - picketing for or against something, and handing out literature - these are conspicuously formal actions. They have to be understood as indirect communication.