Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Character isn't something you were born with and can't change, like your fingerprints. It's something you weren't born with and must take responsibility for forming.
Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of literature, to those who really like to study people, is that in fiction the author can really tell the truth without humiliating himself.