By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Know or listen to those who know.
After a storm comes a calm.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.