Always desire to learn something useful.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Well done is better than well said.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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.