Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
I can, therefore I am.
Know or listen to those who know.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.