Who seeks shall find.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Always desire to learn something useful.
You never know what motivates you.
Only the educated are free.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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.