What a man knows is everywhere at war with what he wants. Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion. People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization. >From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from >facts. Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life. Enjoy yourself -- it's later than you think. But childhood prolonged, cannot remain a fairyland. It becomes a hell. Everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was. If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice. You spend all your life trying to do something they put people in asylums for. My country is the world my countrymen are mankind. A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either. If you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work.
