Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
After a storm comes a calm.
Perhaps, all writers walk such a line. In general - as we all do in our dreams - I believe I put something of myself into all the characters in my novels, male as well as female.