You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
To try to be better is to be better.
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 can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.