After a storm comes a calm.
You never know what motivates you.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Know or listen to those who know.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Only the educated are free.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.