The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.