The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Know or listen to those who know.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Only the educated are free.
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.