If you've got a talent, protect it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
It's always too early to quit.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Who seeks shall find.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Well done is better than well said.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.