Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.

Within the oftentimes bombastic and truculent appearance that I present to the world, trembles a heart shy as a wren in the hedgerow or a mouse along the wainscoting

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

A very slight change in our habits is sufficient to destroy our sense of our daily reality, and the reality of the world about us; the moment we pass out of our habits we lose all sense of permanency and routine

He was standing like he was going to smash a bug,

All of a sudden now, every night seems to be picking up and picking up so we're happy, it's great to have the students back.