If you've got a talent, protect it.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Well done is better than well said.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
It's always too early to quit.
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.