Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children.
At the age of 15, a teacher had asked me what I wanted to do for a career, and without knowing why or even how I replied that I wanted to be a poet.