Always desire to learn something useful.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Know or listen to those who know.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
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.