There are poets who sing you to sleep
and poets who ready you for war
and I want to be both.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.

What happened to your lip?" Ravenna said to him. "It looks sore."
Miss Feather's fingers darted to her mouth.
"Thank you for your kind concern, Miss Caulfield." His eyes were very dark blue and still rimmed with the longest lashed Ravenna had ever seen on a man. Beauty and virility and confidence and sheer privileged arrogance combined to remarkable effect. No wonder these silly girls stared. "It was bitten," he said.
"Oh, dear." Lady Penelope pouted sweetly. "That must have been alarming."
"Not terribly. I have been bitten by cats before." The corner of his mouth twitched. "This one," he said, turning his dark, laughing gaze upon Ravenna, "was otherwise charming."

-Ravenna, Vitor, & Lady Penelope

Self-confidence is the memory of success

I've known for a very long time that I was being downloaded more than Cindy Margolis, ... I got fed up, and I finally had time to pursue it.