Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Know or listen to those who know.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Well done is better than well said.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.