I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time. Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting. You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.