Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
You never know what motivates you.
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.