Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Only the educated are free.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.