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Wheels of fire, cosmic, rich, full-bodied honest victories over desperation.

What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

The more control you have over your life, the more responsible you feel for your own success – or failure.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

I am the most well-adjusted human being I know. I started out this investigation as a very happy man with a great career. I’ve got the life people dream about: I am rich, I am famous, I’ve got a fabulous marriage to an absolutely, spell-bindingly brilliant woman.

Grace must find expression in life, otherwise it is not grace.