If you've got a talent, protect it.
After a storm comes a calm.
You never know what motivates you.
Only the educated are free.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Always desire to learn something useful.
It's always too early to quit.
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.