“The elevator to success is out of order. You'll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.”

“Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.”

“Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs.”

“Man's books are but a climbing stair,
Lain step by step, like stairs of stone;
The stairway here, the temple there —
Man's lampad honor, and his trust,
The God who called him from the dust.”

“Is it advisable to spread out all the conveniences of culture before people to whom a few steps up a stair to a library is a sufficient deterrent from reading?”

“Vision is not enough, it must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps, we must step up the stairs.”

“If you have no critics you'll likely have no success.”

“I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.”

“Someone out there was using the fact that stock market orders arrived at different times at different exchanges to front-run orders from one market to another.”

“Fate is a ladder on which you cannot afford to miss a single rung. To skip out on even one step would mean you'll never make it to the top.”