Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.
Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements, the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
Don't try to convert the elderly person; circumvent him.
When in doubt, risk it
Beware of your habits. The better they are the more surely they will be your undoing.
The end of reading is not more books but more life.