Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
You never know what motivates you.
Who seeks shall find.
It's always too early to quit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
I can, therefore I am.
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.