To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Who seeks shall find.
Always desire to learn something useful.
After a storm comes a calm.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
You never know what motivates you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.