He appears when you're tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant. Joy is not in things, it is in us. That will be the beginning. Victory is not won in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later win a little more.
Politeness is the poison of collaboration.
Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable. Ambition is but avarice on stilts and masked. As novices, we think we're entirely responsible for the way people treat us.