A person filled with gumption doesn’t sit about stewing about things. He’s at the front of the train of his own awareness, watching to see what’s up the track and meeting it when it comes. That’s gumption. If you’re going to repair a motorcycle, an adequate supply of gumption is the first and most important tool. If you haven’t got that you might as well gather up all the other tools and put them away, because they won’t do you any good.

And what is good, Phaedrus, And what is not good— Need we ask anyone to tell us these things?

In the high country of the mind one has to become adjusted to the thinner air of uncertainty.

Data without generalization is just gossip.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.