Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. — George Bernard Shaw. Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)
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.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.