Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you think you can do it, you can.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Know or listen to those who know.
Leap, and the net will appear.
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.