In general, I don't know when inspiration will pop up.
Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.
Treat your life like something to be sculpted.
The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.
One mark of a good officer, he remembered, was the ability to make quick decisions. If they happen to be right, so much the better.
I do suspect that privacy was a passing fad.