For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.