If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
I can, therefore I am.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I worked hard learning harmony and theory when I was growing up in Chicago in the 1920s.