To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Who seeks shall find.
Leap, and the net will appear.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Know or listen to those who know.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Adele Adkins' retro-soul debut, '19', was striking less for her songs than for that voice: a voluptuous, slightly parched alto that swooped and fluttered like a Dusty Springfield student trying to upstage her teacher, or at least update the rules.