Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.