What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
Callous greed grows pious very fast.
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
Nobody knows what you want except you. And nobody will be as sorry as you if you don't get it. Wanting some other way to live is proof enough of deserving it. Having it is hard work, but not having it is sheer hell.