The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.