Always desire to learn something useful.
You never know what motivates you.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Know or listen to those who know.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Who seeks shall find.
Well done is better than well said.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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.