If you've got a talent, protect it.
I can, therefore I am.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Some of those more out-there jokes were written in the wee hours of the morning. Somehow, they remained funny the next day.