Well done is better than well said.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you can dream it, you can 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.