Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.