If you're going through hell, keep going.
It's always too early to quit.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Always desire to learn something useful.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines.