Faith and Fear make poor bedfellows. Where one is found, the other cannot exist.
Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?
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.
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
If I ever thought I wasn't the right guy for the job, I'd be the first person to fire myself.
When you move like a jellyfish, rhythm is nothing. You go with the flow. You don't stop.
There may be such a thing as habitual luck. People who are said to be lucky at cards probably have certain hidden talents for those games in which skill plays a role. It is like hidden parameters in physics, this ability that does not surface and that I like to call "habitual luck".