You never know what motivates you.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I can, therefore I am.
Who seeks shall find.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
After a storm comes a calm.
Well done is better than well said.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.