If you think you can do it, you can.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
I can, therefore I am.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Wherever you are - be all there.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
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.