Always desire to learn something useful.
Leap, and the net will appear.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Well done is better than well said.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
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?