Only the educated are free.
Always desire to learn something useful.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's always too early to quit.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Never complain and never explain.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you're going through hell, keep going.
I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing.