The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture...Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

When the water reaches the upper level, follow the rats.

Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost as a remembrance.

Every English poet should master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them.