Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
You never know what motivates you.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Know or listen to those who know.
It's always too early to quit.
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.