One day you will ask me which is more important? My life or yours? I will say mine and you will walk away not knowing that you are my life.
My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behaviour lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behaviour
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
You can have it all. Just not all at once.
If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much.
Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
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.
I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.
A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind.
Even when you think you have your life all mapped out, things happen that shape your destiny in ways you might never have imagined.
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
