To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
I can, therefore I am.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
You never know what motivates you.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.