I wanted to give you a victory. But by their essential nature triumphs can’t be given.

One foot in front of the other, wasn't that the grownup way of solving problems? Surely he ought to be a grownup at his age.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

Honesty is the only way with anyone, when you'll be so close as to be living inside each other's skins.

All great human deeds both consume and transform their doers. Consider an athlete, a scientist, an artist, or an entrepreneur. In service of their goals, they lay down time, energy and many other choices and pleasures; in return, they become most truly themselves. A false destiny may be spotted by the fact that it consumes without transforming, without giving back the enlarged self.

I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.

I don't confuse greatness with perfection. To be great anyhow is the higher achievement.