Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Only the educated are free.
Who seeks shall find.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
I can, therefore I am.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Know or listen to those who know.
If anything characterizes the cultural life of the seventies in America, it is an insistence on preventing failures of communication.
The poem is the point at which our strength gave out.