realistic

I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare but I can write a book by me.

A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen.

No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.

For people who live on expectations to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

When one's expectations are reduced to zero one really appreciates everything one does have.

Each of us does in effect strike a series of "deals " or compromises between the wants and longings of the inner self and an outer environment that offers certain possibilities and sets certain limitations.

There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but boys it is all hell.

Don't fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have the more we want. And for this reason we never have it all.

In spite of all of the training you get and the precautions you take to keep yourself alive it's largely a matter of luck that decides whether or not you get killed.

I have done what I could do in life and if I could not do better I did not deserve it. In vain I have tried to step beyond what bound me.

Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

The one important thing I have learned over the years is the difference between taking one's work seriously and taking one's self seriously. The first is imperative and the second is disastrous.

May God ... let me strive for attainable things.

Life didn't promise to be wonderful.

When somebody tells you nothing is impossible ask him to dribble a football.

Hope for a miracle. But don't depend on one.

Life has not taught me to expect nothing but she has taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors.