I set up situations that involve abandoning control and finding out what happens.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

I’ve made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I’m convinced of the opposite.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

I love trying new things.

I’m very careful about saying who would and wouldn’t go to heaven. I don’t know.

Why should I be studying for a future that soon may not exist?

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

Either he’s dead or my watch has stopped.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

You know, people talk about this being an uncertain time. You know, all time is uncertain. I mean, it was uncertain back in – in 2007, we just didn’t know it was uncertain. It was – uncertain on September 10th, 2001. It was uncertain on October 18th, 1987, you just didn’t know it.

The learned is happy, nature to explore; The fool is happy, that he knows no more.

I didn’t want to be a fashion designer, and for a good half of my career I didn’t like it. I always wanted to do other things.

It’s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Forgotten is forgiven.

What prudent merchant will hazard his fortunes in any new branch of commerce when he knows not that his plans may be rendered unlawful before they can be executed?

Although our intellect always longs for clarity and certainty, our nature often finds uncertainty fascinating.

When God sneezed, I didn’t know what to say.

To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

Despite all I have seen and experienced, I still get the same simple thrill out of glimpsing a tiny patch of snow in a high mountain gully and feel the same urge to climb towards it.

It’s a very confusing era that we’re in.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

Going to the woods is going home, for I suppose we came from the woods originally. But in some of nature’s forests, the adventurous traveler seems a feeble, unwelcome creature; wild beasts and the weather trying to kill him, the rank, tangled vegetation, armed with spears and stinging needles, barring his way and making life a hard struggle.

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it.

If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to. If you are not afraid of dying, there is nothing you cannot achieve.

I want to marry Arline because I love her – which means I want to take care of her. That is all there is to it. I want to take care of her. I am anxious for the responsibilities and uncertainties of taking care of the girl I love.

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time.

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.

I think that when we know that we actually do live in uncertainty, then we ought to admit it; it is of great value to realize that we do not know the answers to different questions. This attitude of mind – this attitude of uncertainty – is vital to the scientist, and it is this attitude of mind which the student must first acquire.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

The universe is wider than our views of it.

One of the things you’re doing when you make art, apart from entertaining yourself and other people, is trying to see what ways of working feel good, what feels right.

We still do not know one thousandth of one percent of what nature has revealed to us.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

God not only plays dice, but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

U2’s best work has always been when we didn’t know what we’re doing.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.

Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

Hypotheses should be subservient only in explaining the properties of things but not assumed in determining them, unless so far as they may furnish experiments.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have never been discovered.

Whatever is making you so angry, it’s time for you to give it to God and get over it.

Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?

I’m not afraid to look like a big, hairy, smelly, foreign devil in Tokyo, though I do my best not to, I really do.

I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

I always wonder when it was that I was embraced.

The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.