By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Well done is better than well said.

If you think you can do it, you can.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.