What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.