To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Know or listen to those who know.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.