Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Wherever you are - be all there.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
You never know what motivates you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
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.