Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Who seeks shall find.
I can, therefore I am.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's always too early to quit.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.