You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.