Never complain and never explain.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.