You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
It's always too early to quit.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
I started off in England and very few people knew I was Australian. I mean, the clues were in the poems, but they didn't read them very carefully, and so for years and years I was considered completely part of the English poetry scene.