Only about one percent of my work truly succeeded. Ninety-nine percent was failure. That one percent made me who I am.

Those who move others can feel what others feel. But empathizers struggle themselves. Those who never struggle will never move anyone.

An engineer is truly an engineer only when he creates something with his own hands.

Demand does not simply exist out there. We create it.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

-- Marcus Aurelius

The beginning is half of the whole.

-- Aristotle

Courage begins the difficult deed, but fortune governs its outcome.

-- Democritus

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

-- Laozi

The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.

-- Simone de Beauvoir

It is in the knowledge of the true conditions of our life that we must draw our strength to live and our reasons to act.

-- Simone de Beauvoir