Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.