“I tell you this, and I tell you plainWhat you have done, you will do againYou will bite your tongue, careful or notUpon the already-bitten spot”

“If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.”

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”

“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”

“You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won't take it.”

“Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.”

“Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.”