The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Only the educated are free.
Well done is better than well said.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Never complain and never explain.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Having soon discovered to be great, I must appear so, and therefore studiously avoided mixing in society, and wrapped myself in mystery, devoting my time to fasting and prayer.