What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
You never know what motivates you.
Only the educated are free.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
After a storm comes a calm.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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.