“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.”
“A perfectly happy marriage? There is no such thing. There are strong marriages that can survive problems, but happiness is such a brief condition, interrupted by difficulties and plain, boring routine.”
“She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.”
“It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.”
“Before climbing the summits, you must first walk in the down valleys!”
“To see the big picture, get out of the dark valleys, climb to the sunny summits!”