When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
My head rang like a gong.