His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.