You don'trun twenty-six miles at five minutes a mile on good looks and a secretrecipe.

One whodoes not look ahead remains behind.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

They know enough who know how to learn.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Adversity attracts the man of character. He seeks out the better joy, responsibility.

Sometimesyou have to be silent to be heard.

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.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

Ultimately, the only power to which man should aspire isthat which he exercises over himself.

Sometimeswe have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have togrow to meet it.

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