Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Well done is better than well said.
Leap, and the net will appear.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
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.