Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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 am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.