I can, therefore I am.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
After a storm comes a calm.
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.