Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Never complain and never explain.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it.