Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
You never know what motivates you.
Well done is better than well said.
Never complain and never explain.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Only the educated are free.
Wherever you are - be all there.
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.