Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
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.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.