The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
You never know what motivates you.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.