Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

If you've got a talent, protect it.