Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Who seeks shall find.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Wherever you are - be all there.
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.