As a writer, you have to first of all write what you want to. Listen to advice, by all means, but don't get bogged down in it.

Belief without evidence is the very hallmark of the savage.

Proof is boring. Proof is tiresome. Proof is an irrelevance. People would far rather be handed an easy lie than search for a difficult truth, especially if it suits their own purposes.

The wise wait for their moment, but never let it pass.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it.

Fools boast of what they will do. Heroes do it.