If you think you can do it, you can.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Who seeks shall find.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Never complain and never explain.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.