To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Never complain and never explain.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.