Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Who seeks shall find.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
It's always too early to quit.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Only the educated are free.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.