I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
He who is in love with himself has at least this advantage - he won't encounter many rivals.
Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.
In every tragedy, an element of comedy is preserved. Comedy is just tragedy reversed.
When life hands you a lemon, say, 'Oh yeah, I like lemons! What else ya got?
Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.
Is it progress if a cannibal uses a fork?
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Let silence take you to the core of life.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding... And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy
Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you find yourself.
Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn't make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.
Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are.
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.
I restore myself when I'm alone.
Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
The knowledge of oneself will preserve that person from vanity.
Insanity in individuals is rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs, it is the rule.
There's no advantage to hurrying through life.
