By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

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

After a storm comes a calm.

The most effective way to do it, is to do it.

Know or listen to those who know.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Wherever you are - be all there.

If you've got a talent, protect it.