Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness.

Luck iswhat happens when preparation meets opportunity.

Youdon't run twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

Nogarden is without its weeds.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

Tofight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supremeexcellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.

The bad gardener quarrels with his rake.

No matterhow thin you make a pancake, it always has two sides.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.

Tobelieve in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

Knowingthat everything's futile but still fighting, still raging against the dying ofthe light that's what motivates me all the time ... If you hold that sense offutility in your head for too long, it can begin to eat into you. You canstill be aware of it