Always desire to learn something useful.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Only the educated are free.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Who seeks shall find.
I think Bond the character is distinct: He's British, he has a certain code that he lives by, he's incorruptible... he's a classical hero, but he's also fallible. He has inner demons, inner conflicts, and he's a romantic.