Always do your best. What you plant now you will harvest later.
Work as though you would live forever and live as though you would die...
Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.
We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in it's all there at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.