Never complain and never explain.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Only the educated are free.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
After a storm comes a calm.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
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.