The summit is believed to be the object of the climb. But its true object--the joy of living--is not in the peak itself, but in the adversities encountered on the way up.

The truth of the scholar, alone in his study, does not always accord with what the world at large considers to be true.

The world is a stone wall ... and they have put the stones so close together that there is not a single crack through which one may enter.

The greatest happiness of life was to stand at the difficult border between success and failure.

It's no good to want to win still more when you have already won.

it is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.

Think what you like. There are people who die by remaining alive and others who gain life by dying.