Leap, and the net will appear.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
After a storm comes a calm.
Always desire to learn something useful.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.