I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.