You never know what motivates you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Never complain and never explain.
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.