If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.