The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.
If you’re afraid – don’t do it, – if you’re doing it – don’t be afraid.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.