What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.