If you think you can do it, you can.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Well done is better than well said.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Know or listen to those who know.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I used to joke that if acting didn't work out, poetry was my commonsense fallback.