“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”

“One of the first and most difficult steps in a science is to conceive clearly the nature of the magnitudes about which we are arguing.”

“Beginning to reason is like stepping onto an escalator that leads upward and out of sight. Once we take the first step, the distance to be traveled is independent of our will and we cannot know in advance where we shall end.”

“The first step toward greatness is to be honest, says the proverb; but the proverb fails to state the case strong enough. Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness,"”

“The two important things that I did learn were that you are as powerful and strong as you allow yourself to be, and that the most difficult part of any endeavour is taking the first step, making the first decision.”

“To die is to become like a child, at last one knows nothing, nothing of death and nothing of life, only that all distances are equally long and all words unintelligible but beautiful.”

“There is nothing more difficult than waking someone who is only pretending to be asleep.”

“Near me, nothing but distances.”

“Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.”

“Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction.”