Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone.

I don't know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know …

If I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers. I can sketch one…

I do not think that there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.

By working hard, old man, I hope to make something good one day. I haven't yet, but I am pursuing it and fighting for it.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, Can circumvent or hinder or control The firm resolve of a determined soul. Gifts count for nothing; will alone is grea…