I'm superstitious. I keep mum while I'm working on something.
Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand. . . what he learns and the way he understands it.
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn't true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.
Take a chance and you may lose. Take not a chance and you have lost already.
Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Everyday, I walk myself into a state of well-being & walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it. But by sitting still, & the more one sits still, the closer one comes to feeling ill. Thus if one just keeps on walking, everything will be all right.
The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
[Nikola Tesla] said he had no interest in the spiritual. He didn't believe in telepathy, didn't believe in any of that stuff, didn't believe in any religion, and he just thought all these people were being superstitious and wanted them to go away. And in that way he was very close to H. P. Lovecraft, who was almost a believing atheist.
Men lie, and they lie to theirselves worst of all.
Revenge is never a straight line. It's a forest, and like a forest it's easy to lose your way. . . to get lost. . . to forget where you came in.
It's the most amazing feeling to hold your child in your arms.