“His answer to every problem, every setback was “I will work harder!” —which he had adopted as his personal motto.”

“He had the same look on his face that I had every day when I looked in the mirror. He was nothing more than a shell of a person.”

“Winners make every setback a floor to launch higher. Non-winners make every setback a ceiling to launch lower.”

“I think that every living person, every person who is awake to the functioning principles within his reality has a moment where he stops blaming the problems in the world on group thinking, on humanity and authority, and starts to face himself. I hate this more than anything. This is the hardest principle within christian spirituality for me to deal with. The problem is not out there, the problem is the needy beast of a thing living in my chest.”

“To imagine yourself inside another person...is what a story writer does in every piece of work; it is his first step, and his last too, I suppose.”

“I think you should kill him and eat his brain," Mr. Frostee said quickly.That's not the answer to every problem in interpersonal relations," Cobb said, hopping out.”