Anything that is excellent or praiseworthy stands moment by moment on the cutting edge and must be constantly fought for. Well placed priorities always sit on the edge.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
Big is not beautiful. Big is inefficient.
The activist is not the man who says the river is dirty. The activist is the man who cleans up the river.
Most people give up just when they're about to achieve success.
In plain Texas talk, it's 'do the right thing'