The only person with whom you have to compare yourself is you in the past.
Unfortunately, repressed emotions do not die. They are silenced. But they continue to affect the person.
A man is sometimes more generous when he has no money than when he has a lot.
Every culture is based on coercion to work.
A little child is immoral, he has no internal inhibitions against pleasures.
The task to make humans happy was not included in the plan of creation.
Generally humans appreciate and want what they can not reach.
Tolerant attitude towards life is the first duty of all living beings.
You can't regulate every lab in the world.
The missing link in cosmology is the nature of dark matter and dark energy.
Not only does god play dice, but... he sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.
A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.
Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.
There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.
“What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.”
Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.
“According as circumstances are favorable, one should modify one’s plans.”
“By altering his arrangements and changing his plans, he keeps the enemy without definite".
“The Commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage, and strictness.”
If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.
“A clever general, therefore, avoids an army when its spirit is keen, but attacks it when it is sluggish and inclined to return. This is the art of studying moods.”
“Therefore the clever combatant imposes his will on the enemy, but does not allow the enemy’s will to be imposed on him.”
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.
All men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.