Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.

Either you run the day or the day runs you.

Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.

Only the educated are free.

Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.

The dog that trots about finds a bone.

To know oneself, one should assert oneself.