Life is a game with a glorious prize, if we can only play it right. It is give and take, and often ends in a fight. But he surely wins who honestly tries, regardless of wealth and fame. He can never despair who plays it fair. How are you playing the game? Do you wild and whine if you fail to win, i…
“Kindness” covers all of my political beliefs, no need to spell them out. I believe that if, at the end, according to our abilities, we have done something to make others a little happier, and something to make ourselves a little happier… That is about the best we can do. To make others less happy…
‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul And sings the tune without the words And never stops – at all And sweetest in the Gale, is heard And sore must be the storm That could abash the little Bird That kept so many warm I’ve heard it in the chillest land And on the strangest Sea…
I’ve once written about the myth of Prometheus, the titan that gave humanity fire, and was severely punished for it by the gods. There is one more famous Greek story that’s connected to this myth, a story about curiosity and its consequences, the story of Pandora’s Box. Prometheus had a brother cal…
No man is an island, entire of itself. Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea… Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friend’s or of thine own were. Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involve…
I would rather be ashes than dust. I would rather that my spark would burn out in a brilliant blaze, than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The proper function of man is to live, not to exist…
People ask me “What’s the use of climbing Mount Everest?” And my answer must at once be, “It is of no use, there is not the slightest prospect of any gain whatsoever.” Oh, we may learn a little about the behaviour of the human body at high altitudes, and possibly medical men may turn our observatio…
We know very well that errors are better recognized in the works of others than in our own, And that often, while reproving little faults in others, you may ignore great ones in yourself. A very good plan every now and then is to go away and have a little relaxation, For when you come back to your…
"The only thing we are absolutely certain about is that nothing is certain." -Werner Heisenberg- Quantum Physics is one of the most difficult things to wrap your head around, in fact, if you’re starting to feel like you understand quantum physics, you probably have no idea at all. The field of quan…
If you can keep your head all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too. If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, or being hated, don’t give way to hatin…
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes in a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the…
Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves. Like locked rooms, or books written in a foreign language Do no now look for the answers, they cannot now be given to you Because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live th…