It's always too early to quit.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Know or listen to those who know.
You never know what motivates you.
An important aspect of the current situation is the strong social reaction against suggestions that the home language of African American children be used in the first steps of learning to read and write.