Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Know or listen to those who know.
Who seeks shall find.
You never know what motivates you.
Wherever you are - be all there.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.