Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
It's always too early to quit.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Well done is better than well said.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Know or listen to those who know.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I do believe very much in the idea of unexpected or 'convulsive' beauty - beauty in the service of liberty.