All major changes are like death. You can't see to the other side until you are there. - Michael Crichton

Like all trial attorneys, he knew the importance of not dressing too well.

There's one problem with all psychological knowledge - nobody can apply it to themselves. People can be incredibly astute about the shortcomings of their friends, spouses, children. But they have no insight into themselves at all. The same people who are coldly clear-eyed about the world around them have nothing but fantasies about themselves. Psychological knowledge doesn't work if you look in a mirror. This bizarre fact is, as far as I know, unexplained.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.