All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it. — George Bernard Shaw. Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.