If you think you can do it, you can.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Know or listen to those who know.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.