Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Never complain and never explain.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Well done is better than well said.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
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.