Know or listen to those who know.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Only the educated are free.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
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.