Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Never complain and never explain.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
You never know what motivates you.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
So the thing I realized rather gradually - I must say starting about 20 years ago now that we know about computers and things - there's a possibility of a more general basis for rules to describe nature.