I had no talent for science. What was infinitely worse: all my fraternity brothers were engineers.

A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

The first amazing fact about gravitation is that the ratio of inertial mass to gravitational mass is constant wherever we have checked it. The second amazing thing about gravitation is how weak it is.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

My preparation is about precision. It is a science.

People like to build their own story about my life. I don’t know if it makes them feel better, or if it makes it okay for them to not like me, but the last thing I grew up as was rich.

Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars – mere globs of gas atoms. I, too, can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more?

I have an expression I use as I’ve gone around the world through my career: ‚You never tell another man or woman what’s in their interest. They know their interest better than you know their interest.‘

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

I never deny. I never contradict. I sometimes forget.

I am in my own head most of the time.

One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one’s death, one dies one’s life.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation.

I can’t pretend that I’m brave and that I can beat the whole world.

I like to talk about lint and coasters, the expansion of the universe and maybe McDonald’s. I’m completely turned off by the idea of politics.

Every spirit makes its house, and we can give a shrewd guess from the house to the inhabitant.

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

I have trouble with letting go. That’s my problem.

The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

I have the habit of attention to such excess, that my senses get no rest – but suffer from a constant strain.

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.

One thing about me is I try to be honest.

Enlightened people seldom or never possess a sense of responsibility.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience.

My name is Adam Sandler. I’m not particularly talented. I’m not particularly good-looking. And yet I’m a multi-millionaire.

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

The nobler a man, the harder it is for him to suspect inferiority in others.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay – and rise!

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

I’ve never been an intellectual but I have this look.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I don’t have any oratory skills. But I would not use them if I had.

Conflict cannot survive without your participation.

If you don’t like what you’re doing, then don’t do it.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection – you cannot cope with the future.

The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation the end and beginning of his life.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

I’m 31 now. I think I’m beginning to understand what life is, what romance is, and what a relationship means.

If you start to think of your physical and moral condition, you usually find that you are sick.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

I’m one of them guys that tries to make everything the best of the best, so sometimes I’m out of control with it.

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn’t do to upset one’s own vanity.