The courage to speak must be matched by the wisdom to listen.
It's a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.
Etc. is a perfect word-when you can't think of the right one.
Bureaucrats live on the fat of the land, while the rest of us stay skinny laboring to pay their salaries.
In a bureaucracy, they shoot the bull, pass the buck, and make seven copies of everything.
Choice, not chance, determines destiny.