If you are willing to take the punishment, you're halfway through the battle. That the issues may be trivial, the battle ugly, is another point.
Nothing, of course, begins at the time you think it did.
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
You lose your manners when you're poor.
It is a mark of many famous people that they cannot part with their brightest hour.
Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge's chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.