People don't ever seem to realise that doing what's right's no guarantee against misfortune. - William McFee

That is my rule of life. If fate means you to lose, give him a good fight anyhow. Do you remember Henley's magnificent lines?
'Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.' ?
That is my gospel. What do you think of it?

It is so much easier to tell intimate things in the dark.

Responsibility's like a string we can only see the middle of. Both ends are out of sight.