Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.