Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cause of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done.

Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.

Enough research will tend to support your conclusions.

A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.

Every clarification breeds new questions.

The universe is simmering down, like a giant stew left to cook for four billion years. Sooner or later we won’t be able to tell the carrots from the onions.

Every solution breeds new problems.

Don't force it... get a bigger hammer.

First Rule of Acting: Whatever happens, look as if it were intended.

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

Stages may exist on the path, but there is no question of stages in the goal. The goal of man is self-realization. Self-realisation is never partial. What is partial is not Self-realisation.

Fear of failure is expressed in negative goal-setting, indecisiveness, and fear of adverse consequences

Above the sky, everything is beautiful, but alone. (Au-dessus du ciel, - Tout est beau, mais seul)

Did you ever dream you had a friend, Alec? Someone to last your whole life and you his. I suppose such a thing can’t really happen outside sleep.

The Goddess of Old Europe and Ancient Crete represented the unity of life in nature, delight in the diversity of form, the powers of birth, death and regeneration.

I think of art as the highest level of creativity. To me, it is one of the greatest sources of enjoyment.

When we experience fear, it cuts us off from our power. It cuts us off from knowledge and experience. It is a guillotine that falls and separates.

Well-makers lead the water (wherever they like) ; fletchers bend the arrow ; carpenters bend a log of wood ; wise people fashion themselves.

Nor love, not honor, wealth nor power, can give the heart a cheerful hour when health is lost. Be timely wise; With health all taste of pleasure flies.

Solitude and silence teach me to love my brothers for what they are, not for what they say.