You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.