A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

Nothing humbles a rich man better than not being wanted by a woman whose man is poor.

Your realization of your being better than someone at something is not an invitation for you to advise them on that thing.

It is as difficult for most poor people to truly believe that they could someday escape poverty as it is for most wealthy people to truly believe that their wealth could someday escape them.

The middle class were invented to give the poor hope; the poor, to make the rich feel special; the rich, to humble the middle class.

Because of things such as arrogance, alcohol, and promiscuity, some people are each a legend in the unmaking.

Desperateness sometimes makes us do something that gives someone, or some people, the impression that we suffer from forgetfulness.

Some people deny the existence of God in order to give themselves credit for their successes. Some accept His existence in order to deny responsibility for their failures.

For our success to happen, millions of billions of things, the vast majority of which were neither in our control nor in our awareness, needed not only to happen but also to happen how, when, where, and—in some cases—for how long, they have happened; and to happen to the things and the people to whom they have happened.