Always desire to learn something useful.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Only the educated are free.
Well done is better than well said.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.