Only the educated are free.
I can, therefore I am.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
After a storm comes a calm.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Who seeks shall find.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
So I really did stop and change what I saw I was about, and really try to put that principle into play as the center of everything - my friendships, my marriage, my career, my family, my way of being in the world. And that changed everything for me.