To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.