Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
It's always too early to quit.
Who seeks shall find.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
If you think you can do it, you can.
Know or listen to those who know.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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.