If you've got a talent, protect it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Well done is better than well said.
It's always too early to quit.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Never complain and never explain.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.