Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Leap, and the net will appear.
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.