Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
After a storm comes a calm.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Only the educated are free.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
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.