Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Never complain and never explain.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
I can, therefore I am.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The only difference is that religion is much better organised and has been around much longer, but it's the same story with different characters and different costumes.