Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Who seeks shall find.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.