I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.