Typically, the more often you're right, the less often someone will listen to you. And the more you remind them of that statistic, the more they'll prove it true.

No knee-jerk response should lead to long-term contemplation.

You can answer a door without letting someone in, just as you can acknowledge a thought without having to indulge it.

There's nothing to say differently to a person who wasn't going to listen anyhow.

Whenever someone puts you in a position of having to initiate a conversation they should have initiated, whatever criticisms they have about what you should have said, or how you should have said it, are irrelevant.

Escalating frustration with some parts of your life into being upset about all of your life is like amputating a limb in response to missing the other.