Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Leap, and the net will appear.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.