Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Wherever you are - be all there.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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.