Be grateful as your deeds become less and less associated with your name, as your feet ever more lightly tread the earth.

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

Never let success hide its emptiness from you, achievement its nothingness, toil its desolation. And so...keep alive the incentive to push on further, that pain in the soul which drives us beyond ourselves...Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - your destiny - are here and now.

I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

This accidental meeting of possibilities calls itself I. I ask: what am I doing here? And, at once, this I becomes unreal.