Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Only the educated are free.
It's always too early to quit.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Well done is better than well said.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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.