Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.