Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Never complain and never explain.
Know or listen to those who know.
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
Great poetry is always written by somebody straining to go beyond what he can do.