Never complain and never explain.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Who seeks shall find.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
After a storm comes a calm.
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.