That was the trouble with not paying attention to money. It was never there when you needed it. - Charles de Lint

Everybody makes the same mistake. Fortune-telling doesn’t reveal the future; it mirrors the present. It resonates against what your subconscious already knows and hauls it up out of the darkness so that you can get a good look at it.

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

It's not all about getting your own way. Sometimes there's a bigger picture.