“To deal with reality you must first recognize it as such.”
“Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.”
“Before I can face the future, I must first deal with the past.”
“People who deal in truth themselves recognize it when they hear it, just as people who deal in diamonds recognize a real stone when they see it.”
“A sense of mission lostin ink'sjagged outcrops.I was trying to tell myselfwhat I must have knownbeforein a formI wouldn't recognize at first.”
“I know and understand you are much more than what I think you are but first I must deal with you the way I think you even if that's only my own thinking and not you.”