By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

Never complain and never explain.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Know or listen to those who know.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.