Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Who seeks shall find.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Well done is better than well said.
A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke - and that the joke is oneself.