If you've got a talent, protect it.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Never complain and never explain.
Who seeks shall find.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Only the educated are free.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
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.