A light hand is one which never feels the contact of the bit with the bars.
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
The fans only don't support me cos of the way I fight, they support me cos of the way I am.
Beware, for as you sleep, the exhausted man will be first to reach the peak.
It doesn't matter whether you're talking about bombs or the intelligence quotients of one race as against another if a man is a scientist, like me, he'll always say Publish and be damned.
If you're anxious to shine in the high aesthetic line as a man of culture rare, you must get up all the germs of the transcendental terms, and plant them everywhere.