Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
After a storm comes a calm.
Always desire to learn something useful.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Who seeks shall find.
Never complain and never explain.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.