If you've got a talent, protect it.
I can, therefore I am.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.