By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Leap, and the net will appear.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
It's always too early to quit.
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.