The trouble with learning to parent on the job is that your child is the teacher.
The trouble with always leaving yourself a way out is that you always take it.
Man is rated the highest animal, at least among all animals who returned the questionnaire.
Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.
Here is the basic question: Are we marionettes, or are we creatures of free will who just happen to have a lot of jerky reflexes?
In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.