If you've got a talent, protect it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
But look, you did not have to be well versed in politics to know that some stupid things were going on. It is the counsel's job to stop them, and instead the coverup was created.