Humility Is Not A Virtue

Every Rejection Is Incremental Payment On Your Dues That In Some Way Will Be Translated Back Into Your Work.

The System Shaves The Dice On The Side Of Those With Money And Power, And Anyone Who Believes Otherwise Deserves Anything That Happens To Him.

I Believe Every...man Remembers The Girl He Thinks He Should Have Married. She Reappears To Him In His Lonely Moments, Or He Sees Her In The Face Of A Young Girl In The Park, Buying A Snowball Under An Oak Tree By The Baseball Diamond. But She Belongs To Back There, To Somebody Else, And That Thought Sometimes Rends Your Heart In A Way That You Never Share With Anyone Else.

And Like Most Middle-aged People Who Hear The Clock Ticking In Their Lives, I Had Come To Resent A Waste Or Theft Of My Time That Was Greater Than Any Theft Of My Goods Or Money.

..why Is It That In Problematic Situations Almost Everyone Resorts To Axioms And Societal Remedies That In Actuality Almost Nobody Believes In?...ask Yourself, Have You Ever Known Anyone Whose Marriage Was Saved By A Marriage Counselor, Whose Drinking Was Cured By A Psychiatrist, Whose Son Was Kept Out Of Reform School By A Social Worker?