Some people spend their entire lives waiting for the time to be right to make an improvement. Atomic Habits

No carelessness in your actions. No confusion in your words. No imprecision in your thoughts. ) Book VIII

I am a sick man... I am a wicked man. An unattractive man. Notes from Underground

All colors and blends of Americans have somewhat the same tendencies. It's a breed — selected out by accident. And so we're overbrave and overfearful — we're kind and cruel as children. We're overfriendly and at the same time frightened of strangers. We boast and are impressed. We're oversentimental and realistic. We are mundane and materialistic — and do you know of any other nation that acts for ideals? We eat too much. We have no taste, no sense of proportion. We throw our energy about like waste. In the old lands they say of us that we go from barbarism to decadence without an intervening culture. East Of Eden