Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The most effective way to do it, is to 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.