Either you run the day or the day runs you.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
Wherever you are - be all there.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
After a storm comes a calm.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.