Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
I can, therefore I am.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Humor has historically been tied to the mores of the day. The Yellow Kid was predicated on what people thought was funny about the immigrant Irish. When you're different in a society, you're funny.