Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you think you can do it, you can.
It's always too early to quit.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Only the educated are free.
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.