All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.

I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I’ve never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

It isn’t what we don’t know that gives us trouble, it’s what we know that ain’t so.

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is.

Sometimes I’ve called writing a disease. If so, I’m glad that it caught me.

Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Millions of people were inspired by the Apollo Program. I was five years old when I watched Apollo 11 unfold on television, and without any doubt it was a big contributor to my passions for science, engineering, and exploration.

There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

Give thy thoughts no tongue.

True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

Man the individual consoles himself for his passing with the thought of the offspring or the works which he leaves behind.

One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

Oh, you weak, beautiful people who give up with such grace. What you need is someone to take hold of you – gently, with love, and hand your life back to you.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists. That is why they invented Hell.

The future influences the present just as much as the past.

If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?

We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

That government is best which governs least.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I’ve only ever had one.

Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.

There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Religion is the opium of the masses.

How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

Scripture is filled with examples of men and women whom God used late in life, often with great impact – men and women who refused to use old age as an excuse to ignore what God wanted them to do.

My philosophy is simple: It’s a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other: given the upper, to find the under side.

You are never too young to learn, never too old to change.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

A man’s character is his guardian divinity.

All art is but imitation of nature.

As a kid, I used to see how Sachin Tendulkar used to win matches under pressure for India in Sharjah or other places. So I was always keen to repeat the same in similar situations. I don’t take pressure on myself when I am in the middle. I love pressure, and I always believe that pressure makes you more focused.

History should be written as philosophy.

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

O, had I but followed the arts!

One that confounds good and evil is an enemy to good.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn’t copy my style from anybody.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns to which we are awake. There is more day to dawn. The sun is but a morning star.

Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one.

I have an existential map. It has ‚You are here‘ written all over it.

My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, ‚The Intoxication of Life,‘ ‚The Purpose of Life,‘ ‚The Real Cause of Man’s Distress,‘ ‚The Journey to the Goal in Life,‘ and, one of my favorites, ‚The Heart of Man.‘ They contained important insights that spoke to something deep inside me.