Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

Today is all we have, tomorrow is a mirage that may never become reality.

Throw a rock into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps the loudest is usually the one that got hit.

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

Any man can shoot a gun, and with practice he can draw fast and shoot accurately, but that makes no difference. What counts is how you stand up when somebody is shooting back at you.