The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
I can, therefore I am.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis.