Wizard's Seventh Rule Life is the future, not the past.

But emotions when based on valued things can be a faithful and consistant sum of truths.

The worse you are at thinking, the better you are at drinking.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.

There is nothing that exists that has only one side. Even a piece of paper, thin as it is, has two sides.

Cut the attacker down, to cut them down to their very soul

I'm afraid that we all make mistakes. One of the things that defines our character is how we handle mistakes. If we lie about having made a mistake, then it can't be corrected and it festers. On the other hand, if we give up just because we made a mistake, even a big mistake, none of us would get far in life.