Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Well done is better than well said.
I can, therefore I am.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Only the educated are free.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Leap, and the net will appear.
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.