Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
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.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.