The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.
By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Know or listen to those who know.
Always desire to learn something useful.
If you can dream it, you can do it.
To be a good loser is to learn how to win.
Do not weep do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.