Some people will insult your intelligence by suddenly being nice or nicer to you once you make it … or they think you have.

To evade arrogance, remind yourself (from time to time) that your talent or success could have been better. To be thankful, remind yourself (every now and then) that your illness or failure could have been worse.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.

Like growth, success is often a steppingstone from failure.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

In many cases, it was the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that fell for her man.

In some cases, it is the woman’s stomach—not her heart—that has left her man for another.

Many a parent, sad to say, has used their child as an opportunity for them, the parent, to do, through their child, something or some of the things that they, the parent, did not do or did not do successfully.