Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.