“The human mind is a delusion generator, not a window to trurh.”
At the top of the mountain we are all snow leopards.
Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Great scientific contributions have been techniques.
You can't teach the old maestro a new tune.
Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends
It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.
What you are as a person is far more important than what you are as a basketball player.
All writers are going to have to learn more about science, because it's such an interesting part of their environment.
I expected something pathological, but I did not expect the depth, the violence, and the almost intolerable beauty of the disease.
The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.
Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
I may not always be offered work, but i'll always have my family.
Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.
Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.
Man is the matter of the cosmos, contemplating itself.
There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
When life seems hard, the courageous do not lie down and accept defeat; instead, they are all the more determined to struggle for a better future.
“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.”
I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.
“In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.”
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart"