To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
You never know what motivates you.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.