Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?

Nature is not a temple, but a workshop, and man's the workman in it.

We sit in the mud... and reach for the stars.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

Love, I thought, is stronger than death or the fear of death. Only by it, by love, life holds together and advances.

What's important is that twice two is four and all the rest's nonsense.