If you've got a talent, protect it.

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.

I can, therefore I am.

It's always too early to quit.

Never complain and never explain.

Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.