Never complain and never explain.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Well done is better than well said.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.