The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
People fail forward to success.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.