To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.