It's not the sea that drowns you-it's the puddle.
A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
Failures are like skinned knees, painful but superficial.
People let little things cheat them out of big opportunities
Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.
I've been a bit unlucky with small injuries.
If I'm interrupted, it's just a minor inconvenience, but not a disaster, because it's easy to get back where I was: that is, the paint has not changed consistency; the light has not moved.
Life is not all about profundity. Life is about little things that piss you off, little triumphs, little defeats. So, you can't spend all your time being profound.
Every time I am stuck in traffic, stub my toe, get a middle seat on the flight, I just remember how all of this is just a blip in the radar of my life.
Sometimes I let some of the small things take over. It can be a simple thing, like a call going the wrong way, and it takes me all off.
It doesn't matter how much milk you spill as long as you don't lose the cow.
Small causes are sufficient to make a man uneasy, when great ones are not in the way: for want of a block he will stumble at a straw.