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The work itself is the reward, and if I choose challenging work, it'll pay me back with interest. At least I'll be interested, even if nobody else is.

That choice, between the devil and the dream, comes up every day in different little disguises. I'm sure it comes up in every field of endeavor and every life.

Integrate what you believe into every single area of your life. Take your heart to work, and ask the most and best of everybody else too.

Not from above, but from below. Not in the light that blinds, but in the dark that nourishes, where human beings grow human souls.

BE BOLD, BE BOLD, BE BOLD. Keep on reading. And remember when you hear yourself saying you don't have time anymore to read — then you're getting old. That means they got to you, after all.

The most useful suggestion I can make is that you go on being students for the rest of your lives. Don't move to a mental slum.

This attitude of opposition is not justified as a strategy, as a means to an end, a way of changing the world. It is, rather, the best way of being in the world.

That choice, between the devil and the dream, comes up every day in different little disguises.

I have lived like an animal in the street, but I am going to die like an angel, loved and cared for.

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

The center of the self, itself, is this secret, obsessive, often silly, nearly continuous voice — the voice that is the surest sign we are alive.