Complacency breeds contempt, it also breeds tragedy.

What is the yardstick of your success? I measure mine in happiness.

Whomever coined the phrase, 'A penny for your thoughts', also phrased a coin.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, the correct aphorism should be, 'Live by the sword, die by the pen’.

Stress brings on distress so, to avoid the latter, dispense with the former.