Weeks passed like boats waiting to sail into the starless dawn, we were full of aimless endless darkness.
Judge of a tree by its fruit, not by its leaves.
Freedom is a clear conscience.
He who has once made himself notorious as utterly unprincipled, is not credited even when he speaks the truth.
Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
Be moderate in prosperity, prudent in adversity.
Pleasures are transient, honors are immortal.
Why do toasters always have a setting that burns the toast to a horrible crisp no one would eat?
As someone fairly committed to the death of our solar system and ultimately the entropy of the universe, I think the question of what we should worry about is irrelevant in the end.
It would not become physical science to see in its self created, changeable, economical tools, molecules and atoms, realities behind phenomena. . . The atom must remain a tool for representing phenomena.
I went to the University of California, Santa Cruz for a year, which turned out to be a really vibrant, very intensive intellectual atmosphere where you could do a lot of aspect of music without it being a conservatory. And that's why I went there.