There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
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.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.