The gritty individual approaches achievement as a marathon; his or her advantage is stamina.

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

如果不是现在，那是什么时候？如果不是我，那会是谁？

知足常乐者最富有，因为知足本身就是天然的财富。

Our heroes are human heroes. That's a very new situation. Most other societies have had, right at their center, the worship of something transcendent: a god, a spirit, a natural force, the universe, whatever it is -- something else that is being worshiped. We've slightly lost the habit of doing that, which is, I think, why we're particularly drawn to nature.