You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Only the educated are free.
I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.
I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.