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Well, pioneers always suffer. I don't care who is the first to embark upon things. For instance, settlers that settled the West, Western Canada and the U.S... they went though hell doing it, but it had to be done.

There has to be this pioneer, the individual who has the courage, the ambition to overcome the obstacles that always develop when one tries to do something worthwhile, especially when it is new and different.

One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

In a word I was a pioneer, and therefore had to blaze my own trail.

So I picked a field where I had a little exposure. Where I thought I could have an enormous challenge, and have a chance to really do some good, to be a pioneer in an area, and not just be like everyone else.

If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit.

To have striven, to have made the effort, to have been true to certain ideals - this alone is worth the struggle.