By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you think you can do it, you can.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.