Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
After a storm comes a calm.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I finally did work out a very good relationship with my father, but it was rough growing up. We had a lot of conflict, and I think it surfaced in many of my works.