Getting What You Want
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
The severest test of a character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.
I suspect that this principle of character also applies to the ability to refrain from chiming in when someone in the room is explaining something and you can’t resist what you think is a better explanation. I know that is certainly one of my challenges.
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Life’s a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest.
We don’t have one big advantage so we have to weave a rope of many small advantages.
— Jeff Bezos
People who drink to drown their sorrows should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
— Ann Landers.