The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Well done is better than well said.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
I can, therefore I am.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success.
For a poet to depict a poet in poetry is a hazardous experiment in regarding one's own trade a sense of humour and a little wholesome cynicism are not amiss.