Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Always desire to learn something useful.

Know or listen to those who know.

Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.