Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Know or listen to those who know.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.
Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just plain physical courage.