By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

I can, therefore I am.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Wherever you are - be all there.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Never complain and never explain.