Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
It's always too early to quit.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
After a storm comes a calm.
I can, therefore I am.
Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.