Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
Who seeks shall find.
Well done is better than well said.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
Never complain and never explain.
Always desire to learn something useful.
The wise does at once what the fool does at last.
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.