Always desire to learn something useful.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
Never complain and never explain.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
You never know what motivates you.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.