Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Who seeks shall find.
It's always too early to quit.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
I spent every night until four in the morning on my dissertation, until I came to the point when I could not write another word, not even the next letter. I went to bed. Eight o'clock the next morning I was up writing again.