Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
You never know what motivates you.
Far from wishing to awaken the artist in the pupil prematurely, the teacher considers it his first task to make him a skilled artisan with sovereign control of his craft.