Either you run the day or the day runs you.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Never complain and never explain.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Writing poetry makes you intensely conscious of how words sound, both aloud and inside the head of the reader. You learn the weight of words and how they sound to the ear.