A dead thing goes with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.

Live your life not celebrating victories, but overcoming defeats.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be

Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself and its seed. When we compare the (present) human population of the globe with… that of former times, we see that “chemical imperialism” has been… the main end to which human intelligence has been devoted.