Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Only the educated are free.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
My doctors warned me repeatedly that if you don't stay positive, you don't do well.