Know or listen to those who know.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Well done is better than well said.
Never complain and never explain.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
I can, therefore I am.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
In those days, it didn't take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.