Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Never complain and never explain.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
You never know what motivates you.
Who seeks shall find.
Know or listen to those who know.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
When I was about 13 or 14, I had an English teacher who made a deal with me that I could get out of doing all of the year's regular work if I would write a short story a week and on Friday read it to the class.