Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Only the educated are free.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Never complain and never explain.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Who seeks shall find.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking!