Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Only the educated are free.
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.