Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
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.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.