The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Only the educated are free.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Peter Ustinov was the first really positive influence in my career. He was real and he bore witness to it. The things he said to you, he lived them.