Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Well done is better than well said.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
After a storm comes a calm.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.
This is my job and I respect it enough to concentrate on it.