Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Well done is better than well said.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.