After a storm comes a calm.
Who seeks shall find.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Well done is better than well said.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Know or listen to those who know.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
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.