To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
After a storm comes a calm.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
You never know what motivates you.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
I can, therefore I am.
Know or listen to those who know.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
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.