Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Who seeks shall find.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
Never complain and never explain.
It was a fantastic learning experience and OK, I got slammed because I wasn't Audrey Hepburn but you could have predicted that, really, if you'd opened your eyes wide enough.