Wherever you are - be all there.
Who seeks shall find.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.