You never know what motivates you.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
After a storm comes a calm.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
It's always too early to quit.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Only the educated are free.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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.