realistic

Don't spend time beating on a wall hoping to transform it into a door.

If one considered life as a simple loan one would perhaps be less exacting.

We cannot all be masters.

In nature there are neither rewards or punishments-there are consequences.

Prospect is often better than possession.

One must not hope to be more than one can be.

Life guarantees a chance-not a fair shake.

Life is so constructed that the event does not cannot will not match the expectation.

Life is a perilous voyage.

The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.

I cannot do everything but still I can do something and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do something I can do.

[Being a parent] is tough. If you just want a wonderful little creature to love you can get a puppy.

In combat life is short nasty and brutish. The issues of national policy which brought him into war are irrelevant to the combat soldier he is concerned with his literal life chances.

To dream too much of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

At thirty a man should know himself like the palm of his hand know the exact number of his defects and qualities. ... And above all accept these things.

No one is expected to achieve the impossible.

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.