Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Know or listen to those who know.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Well done is better than well said.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Why not collect and clean chicken wishbones in the run-up to Christmas, spray them silver and use each to pinch together a white hem-stitch napkin?