Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's always too early to quit.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Never complain and never explain.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.