What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
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.