You never know what motivates you.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Well done is better than well said.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Only the educated are free.
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.