If you've got a talent, protect it.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Never complain and never explain.

If you think you can do it, you can.

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

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.