Wherever you are - be all there.
Only the educated are free.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
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.