Ali ibn Abi Talib

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

Do for this life as if you live forever, do for the afterlife as if you die tomorrow.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

As the arteries grow hard, the heart grows soft.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.