Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Who seeks shall find.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Only the educated are free.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
I can, therefore I am.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
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.