Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Know or listen to those who know.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
After a storm comes a calm.
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.