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.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Well done is better than well said.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.