The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's always too early to quit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Well done is better than well said.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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.