If you think you can do it, you can.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Know or listen to those who know.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.