Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

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

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

If you've got a talent, protect it.