The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Only the educated are free.
You never know what motivates you.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Never complain and never explain.
I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean.