realistic

To wish to act like angels while we are still in this world is nothing but folly.

There is a proper balance between not asking enough of oneself and asking or expecting too much.

War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Learn to ... be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not.

The hours we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with fruition.

Despair is the price one pays for setting himself an impossible aim.

My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.

We would have to settle for the elegant goal of becoming ourselves.

As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.

Growth begins when we start to accept our own weakness.

We expect more of ourselves than we have any right to.

In war more than anywhere else in the world things happen differently from what we had expected and look differently when near from what they did at a distance.

It is only fools who keep straining at high C all their lives.

So often we search out the impossible and then throw ourselves into trying to do it.

Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. ... Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

There's no map there's no master plan there's just people.

Because you're not what I would have you be I blind myself to who in truth you are.

Free man is by necessity insecure thinking man is by necessity uncertain.