To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Never complain and never explain.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Moby Dick - that book is so amazing. I just realized that it starts with two characters meeting in bed that's how my book begins, too, but I hadn't noticed the parallel before, two characters forced to share a bed, reluctantly.