I think any young person who is going into the same field as their parent whose parent has been very successful, it's complicated. And it was complicated for me.
I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
Despite what your girlfriend may have told you, size is important, bigger is better.
It is better to hope than to mope!
The press has made up so much. . . God. . . awful, horrifying stories. . . it has made me realize the more often you hear a lie, I mean, you begin to believe it.
…if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world…if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life. I shall know the sound of a step that will be different from all the others. Other steps send me hurrying back underneath the ground. Yours will call me, like music, out of my burrow