Know or listen to those who know.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
After a storm comes a calm.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
I can, therefore I am.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.