If you've got a talent, protect it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Only the educated are free.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.