Always desire to learn something useful.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Only the educated are free.
It's always too early to quit.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
After a storm comes a calm.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Never complain and never explain.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
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.