Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Know or listen to those who know.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?