Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
I can, therefore I am.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Only the educated are free.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
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.