Know or listen to those who know.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I can, therefore I am.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Well done is better than well said.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Wherever you are - be all there.
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.