By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
It's always too early to quit.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Never complain and never explain.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Know or listen to those who know.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
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?