Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
I think most artists create out of despair. The very nature of creation is not a performing glory on the outside, it's a painful, difficult search within.
True strength is delicate.