What's happened is we have lost, over a period of years, short years, 70,000 factories in America.
Sooner or later, everyone has to meet his match.
I have learned that with creatures one loves, suffering is not the only thing for which one may pity them. A rabbit who does not know when a gift has made him safe is poorer than a slug, even though he may think otherwise himself.
We are all human and fall short of where we need to be. We must never stop trying to be the best we can be.
All the world will be your enemy, Prince of a Thousand enemies. And when they catch you, they will kill you. But first they must catch you; digger, listener, runner, Prince with the swift warning. Be cunning, and full of tricks, and your people will never be destroyed.
There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.
You know how you let yourself think that everything will be all right if you can only get to a certain place or do a certain thing. But when you get there you find it's not that simple.
I am always looking for that nuance, that moment of truth, and you can't really do that fast.
The incorrectness and weaknesses of a theory cause other minds to formulate the problems more exactly and in this way scientific progress is made.
Most people never have to face the fact that at the right time and the right place they're capable of anything.
Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first