Go out hard and finish harder.
Willy Loman: I don't want change, I want Swiss cheese!
The job is to ask questions-it always was-and to ask them as inexorably as I can. And to face the absence of precise answers with a certain humility.
When today fails to offer the justification for hope, tomorrow becomes the only grail worth pursuing.
God really does take our work seriously: It is wrong, it is a sin, to accept or remain in a position that you know is a mismatch for you. Perhaps that's a form of sin you've never considered - the sin of staying in the wrong job. But God did not place you on the earth to waste away your years in labor that does not employ his design or purpose for your life, no matter how much you may be getting paid for it.
Everything we are is at every moment alive in us.
What is the most innocent place in any country? Is it not the insane asylum? These people drift through life truly innocent, unable to see into themselves at all.
The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever we use our native capacities to their greatest extent.
A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.
When you're in the back of the pack, you can gamble a little bit more.
To equal a predecessor, one must have twice they worth.