Never complain and never explain.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Well done is better than well said.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
You never know what motivates you.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
After a storm comes a calm.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.