Witty

It will be a little messy, but embrace the mess. It will be complicated, but rejoice in the complications. And don't be frightened: you can always change your mind. I know: I've had four careers and three husbands.

Ambition and satisfaction are at war. If you're ambitious, you aren't satisfied, and if you're satisfied, you aren't ambitious.

What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary. I am merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Saying things are terrible does not automatically establish the reliability of your account. The habitual naysayer is no more to be trusted than the habitual cheerleader.

A good education in skepticism can help us to discover those bad guesses, and to destroy them with mockery and contempt.

I have seen the past, and it works.

Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger but it won't taste good.

A girl might marry a missionary or a traveler and go to strange lands, in which case a knowledge of maps and the names of cities, rivers, and the countries would be useful. Presumably, geography was included in the studies at Troy.