After a storm comes a calm.
Only the educated are free.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
It's always too early to quit.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
You never know what motivates you.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.