true things:

• you get what you pay for (couches, apartments, new cheap towel shredded in washing machine)
  
  
• old habits die hard (greed, self-pity, kindness)
  
  
• we are creatures of habit (personal history, with few exception, repeats itself)
  
  
• patience is the greatest virtue (hope, good things come to those who wait, violence is not the answer)