“Straight ahead you can't go very far.”

“Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.”

“When you come to a place where you have to left or right,' says Sister Ruth, 'go straight ahead.”

“If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead”

“Life's very difficult and full of surprises. At all events, I've got as far as that. To be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged--well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. It's then that proportion comes in--to live by proportion. Don't begin with proportion. Only prigs do that. Let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed...”

“Motivation can't take you very far if you don't have the legs.”