Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Well done is better than well said.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Because at bottom, I'm interested in fear, and in courage and cowardice and these are easier to get at through fiction, where you can enter people's heads.