The dog that trots about finds a bone.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you think you can do it, you can.
It's always too early to quit.
After a storm comes a calm.
The most effective way to do it, is to do it.
Well done is better than well said.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
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.