The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Never complain and never explain.
After a storm comes a calm.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
I found that it wasn't so oddball to like music and poetry and visual arts, they're kindred spirits.