If you think you can do it, you can.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
You never know what motivates you.
Only the educated are free.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
After a storm comes a calm.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.