If you're soft hearted, then you'll never survive in this world of sin.
-Anonymous
Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.
-Erma Bombeck
What parents inculcate in the child is permanently there because childhood is the most impressionable time of life.