If you've got a talent, protect it.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
Always desire to learn something useful.
You never know what motivates you.
That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.