Wherever you are - be all there.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Only the educated are free.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
After a storm comes a calm.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.