Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
You never know what motivates you.
Never complain and never explain.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Who seeks shall find.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Under these conditions it is not astonishing that learning was highly prized in fact, my parents made sacrifices to be able to give their children a good education.
My father was a schoolteacher and my mother came from a teacher's family.