Always desire to learn something useful.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
It's always too early to quit.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
The dog that trots about finds a bone.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Know or listen to those who know.
Who seeks shall find.
Well done is better than well said.
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much way around it.