Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
All the world's a cage.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.