There is no security on this earth. There is only opportunity.

You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.
You're on your own.
And you know what you know.
You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

Everything has a price. There is a price to pay for success, fulfillment, accomplishment, and joy. There are no freebies. If you don’t pay the price that is needed for success, you will pay the price of failure. Preparation, work, study, and service are required to achieve and find happiness. Disobedience and lack of preparation carry a terrible price tag.

Cynicism is often the shamefaced product of inexperience.

Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

Your _____________ was debited in direct proportion to how much you suck.

Mine did not change.

Sucks to be you apparently.

Every marriage is a mistake. Some people just cope with their mistakes better than others.

Since when is “marriage” a civil right? Marriage is a social institution, in which citizens as a group deem a relationship of sufficient importance to grant it protection and status under the law.

Nothing stops you from living with your gay lover. Nothing stops you from having a committed relationship.

But, there’s no “right” requiring society to sanction a relationship and grant it privileges. If you aren’t being jailed or denied due process, or denied the right to private acts in your own home, or access to medical care, or somesuch, “civil rights” doesn’t enter into it.

You want society as a group to grant a privilege to your particular social organization. Well, society gets a say in that.

What could you do better for your children and your children’s children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.