Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
After a storm comes a calm.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Who seeks shall find.
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.