To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.
It's always too early to quit.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Who seeks shall find.
Know or listen to those who know.
Well done is better than well said.
I can, therefore I am.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
One of the beauties of 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo' is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters.