By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Well done is better than well said.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.