“Life can be so easy. Refuse to let go and you are a person drowning; the more you struggle, the faster you sink. ”

“One should not punish a criminal unless one is able to help that criminal understand the constitution of the universe".”

“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”

“So, if you cannot understand that there is something in man which responds to the challenge of this mountain and goes out to meet it, that the struggle is the struggle of life itself upward and forever upward, then you won’t see why we go. What we get from this adventure is just sheer joy. And joy is, after all, the end of life. We do not live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means and what life is for.”

“Yes,' he answered; 'and you will be dead, so long as you refuse to die.”

“There comes that phase in life when, tired of losing, you decide to stop losing, then continue losing. Then you decide to really stop losing, and continue losing. The losing goes on and on so long you begin to watch with curiosity, wondering how low you can go. ”

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”