No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.

Scientific knowledge helps us mainly because it makes the wonder to which we are called by nature rather more intelligible.

Good! A method can be used without physicians, gold, or magic,
Go out into the open field
and start to dig and cultivate;
keep your body and your spirit
in a humble and restricted sphere, sustain yourself by simple fare,
live with your herd and spread your own manure
on land from which you reap your nourishment.
Believe me, that's the best procedure
to keep your youth for eighty years or more.