To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Know or listen to those who know.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Never complain and never explain.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
You don't go after poetry, you take what comes. Maybe the gods do it through me but I certainly do a hell of a lot of the work.