By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Who seeks shall find.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Never complain and never explain.
Well done is better than well said.
Leap, and the net will appear.
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?