Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Never complain and never explain.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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.