The pain that we feel when we are making love with someone is that we know it will end. It's that paradoxical response of joy and suffering.
Let us not deceive ourselves; we must elect world peace or world destruction.
Gold has worked down from Alexander's time. . . When something holds good for two thousand years I do not believe it can be so because of prejudice or mistaken theory.
Never play tips from "insiders. " They can't see the forest for the trees.
Become more humble as the market goes your way.
Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth.
Only liars manage to always be out during bad times and in during good times.
He that has energy enough in his constitution to root out a vice should go a little further, and try to plant a virtue in its place; otherwise he will have his labor to renew. A strong soil that has produced weeds may be made to produce wheat with far less difficulty than it would cost to make it produce nothing.
I don't know what sort of world she will live in and I have no fixed opinions concerning how she should live in it. I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful, it will make little difference whether she lives at all.
Professor Focke and his technicians standing below grew ever smaller as I continued to rise straight up, 50 metres, 75 metres, 100 metres. Then I gently began to throttle back and the speed of ascent dwindled till I was hovering motionless in midair. This was intoxicating! I thought of the lark, so light and small of wing, hovering over the summer fields. Now man had wrested from him his lovely secret.
You don't have to be a genius or a visionary or even a college graduate to be successful. You just need a framework and a dream.