Persecution is the compliment paid by a threatened lie to a conquering truth.
Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?
The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.
To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again
The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.
Every life has a death, and every light a shadow. Be content to stand in the light, and let the shadow fall where it will.
I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark
How scientists go about their job: and it's a process, it's a question of asking questions, respecting observation, respecting experiment, having tentative explanations and then testing them. . . . There is a problem sometimes with how we teach science at schools. Because we sometimes teach it as if it has been chiseled in stone.
Class is not a fixed designation in this country. We are an upwardly mobile society with a lot of movement between income groups.
It's a strange thing, but you get this click in your brain; the wonderful feeling that the entirety of a character is suddenly available and accessible to you.
The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals