Never complain and never explain.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Well done is better than well said.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.