Well done is better than well said.
You never know what motivates you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
After a storm comes a calm.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
In suggesting gifts: Money is appropriate, and one size fits all.