Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Leap, and the net will appear.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The arts and a belief in the values of the civil rights movement, in the overwhelming virtue of diversity, these were our religion. My parents worshipped those ideals.