You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
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.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.