The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.