Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Only the educated are free.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
You never know what motivates you.
Well done is better than well said.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Learning, while at school, that the charge for the education of girls was the same as that for boys, and that, when they became teachers, women received only half as much as men for their services, the injustice of this distinction was so apparent.