Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Know or listen to those who know.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
One of my biggest pet peeves is that I just don't like it when characters do things that are funny to the writer, but you don't know why they're doing it and it doesn't make any sense.