I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.