“If a man’s life is not long enough, a dog’s is even shorter and anything you can do to make that fuller is worthwhile.”

“We can do anything we want as long as we stick to it long enough.”

“You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.”

“Knowing that the life that remained to him could not be of great length, he said, “I try to increase it in weight, I try to arrest the speed of its flight by the speed with which I grasp it. … The shorter my possession of life, the deeper and fuller I must make it.””

“To do anything worthwhile, you will face periods of grinding doubt and fear.”

“And sure enough, even waiting will end… if you can just wait long enough.”

“A man's concern, even his despair, over the worthwhileness of life is an existential distress but by no means a mental disease.”

“Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with Man is Man.”

“Anything can become music if listened to long enough”

“There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live – I have no use for the sour-faced man – and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do.”