Some lessons can't be taught, they simply have to be learned.
Instead of doing the best thing, we sometimes have to settle for the rightest thing.
Sometimes to get what you want the most, you have to do what you want the least.
Good people are good people; religion has nothing to do with it.
You don't need water to feel like you're drowning, do you?
Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.