If you think you can do it, you can.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Leap, and the net will appear.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
I can, therefore I am.
You never know what motivates you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
After all, C++ isn't a perfect match for Java's design aims either.
Thus, the standard library will serve as both a tool and as a teacher.