Know or listen to those who know.
Only the educated are free.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
It's always too early to quit.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Well done is better than well said.
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.