It is the fact that the electrons cannot all get on top of each other that makes tables and everything else solid.
Have faith in your destiny
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
My countrymen should have nerves of steel, muscles of iron, and minds like thunderbolt.
My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made.
There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle.
The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
I'm an artist because that's what I was best at as a kid. It was fun. . . I continue to be an artist. . . for the freedom that an art career can bring. I don't need an alarm clock and I am my own boss.
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
There are just times when it seems you can't do anything wrong. Then there are other times when whatever you do is wrong. I think I could have had more drive. I was never very ambitious.
Search for what is good and strong and beautiful in your society and elaborate from there. Push outward. Always create from what you already have. Then you will know what to do.