“You have to give 100 percent in the first half of the game. If that isn't enough, in the second half, you have to give what's left.”

“Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong.”

“I wrote half this book (the left half) while I was asleep, and I wrote the other half (the top half) while daydreaming. So here we have a case where two halves equal one quarter, which is about what this book is worth—give or take 25 cents.”

“You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.”

“Men won't easily give up a system in which half the world's population works for next to nothing...[and recognizes that]precisely because that half works for so little, it may have no energy left to fight for anything else.”

“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it. ”