Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Never complain and never explain.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Well done is better than well said.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.