I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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 car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.