Sleeping is the height of genius

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.

I would have perished had I not perished.

The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Talent warms-up the given (as they say in cookery) and makes it apparent; genius brings something new. But our time lets talent pass for genius. They want to abolish the genius, deify the genius, and let talent forge ahead.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.