The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Know or listen to those who know.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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?