The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
It's always too early to quit.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you think you can do it, you can.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Know or listen to those who know.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
We try to... we are, I suppose to a certain extent all affected and erm, that is both funny and sad I think.