Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Well done is better than well said.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
After a storm comes a calm.
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.