The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Leap, and the net will appear.
If you think you can do it, you can.
You never know what motivates you.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
I can, therefore I am.
Wherever you are - be all there.
It's always too early to quit.
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.