Well done is better than well said.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
Who seeks shall find.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Know or listen to those who know.
Although some people think I am a romantic novelist I have always thought of myself as a rather gritty radical historian.