"So much of life, so much of work, is luck."

-- Frank Deford

“The art of life consists in taking each event which befalls us with a contented mind, confident of good. ... With this method ... rejoice always, though in the midst of sorrows, and possess all things, though destitute of everything.”
“Success to me is having ten honeydew melons and eating only the top half of each slice.”
“If you get an image try to destroy it.”
“Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.”
“A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.”
“There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.”
“There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.”

Source : Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.149, The Overlook Press
“An algorithm must be seen to be believed.”

Source : Donald Ervin Knuth (1997). “The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental algorithms”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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