A man always has two reasons for the things he does -- a good one, and the real one.

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

I don't want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell me how to do what I want to do.

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.

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 philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways; the point, however, is to change it.

-- Karl Marx

To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily; not to dare is to lose oneself.

-- Søren Kierkegaard