Only the educated are free.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Who seeks shall find.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.