You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud too. That's a part of it.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Well, the first rule is that you can’t really know anything if you just remember isolated facts and try and bang ’em back. If the facts don’t hang together on a latticework of theory, you don’t have them in a usable form.