A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
To try to be better is to be better.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.