Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.