The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
I can, therefore I am.
After a storm comes a calm.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
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.