To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Always desire to learn something useful.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
You never know what motivates you.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
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.