Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
I can, therefore I am.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Who seeks shall find.
It's always too early to quit.
If you think you can do it, you can.
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.