Wherever you are - be all there.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Who seeks shall find.
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.