You never know what motivates you.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
After a storm comes a calm.
Only the educated are free.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
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.