I’m astounded by people who want to ‚know‘ the universe when it’s hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.

Read about history, and you become aware that nothing starts with us.

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.

Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

Yeah, I like to keep myself interested – I’ll kind of throw myself into some area that I don’t completely know or understand, that I’m not adept at, so I’m forced to swim in order to stay afloat. There’s a good feeling that comes from that.

The cosmos is about the smallest hole that a man can hide his head in.

As human beings, we are all not conducting just one narrative but many narratives all at the same time.

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.

Sometimes I think we’re alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we’re not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.

Don’t be afraid to see what you see.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

I think that as you grow up, as you get older, we can’t get bitter, we can’t get jaded.

What’s important in Libya is, first of all, it has a good deal of oil. A lot of the country is unexplored; there may be a lot more. And it’s very high-quality oil, so very valuable.

To the dumb question, ‚Why me?‘ the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply, ‚Why not?‘

Remember happiness doesn’t depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.

We’ve gotta become the Martians. I’m a Martian – I tell you to become Martians. And we’ve gotta go to Mars and civilize Mars and build a whole civilization on Mars and then move out, 300 years from now into the universe. And when we do that, we have a chance of living forever.

There is nothing your highest self wants more than peace. This peace makes you feel worthy of all of the richest blessings of the universe, and when you radiate this out into the world, it is returned to you without fail.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else’s happiness.

Whenever a fellow tells me he’s bipartisan, I know he’s going to vote against me.

I am a nuclear physicist by training and a deeply committed Christian. I don’t have any doubt in my own mind about God who created the entire universe. But I don’t adhere to passages that so and so was created 4,000 years before Christ, and things of that kind.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

A queer fellow and a jolly fellow is the grasshopper. Up the mountains he comes on excursions, how high I don’t know, but at least as far and high as Yosemite tourists.

By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I’m worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

If a subject excites us, if it stirs our deepest curiosity, or if we have to learn because the stakes are high, we pay much more attention. What we absorb sinks in.

My religion encompasses all religions. I believe in God, I believe in the universe. I believe you are god, I believe I am god; I believe the earth is god and the universe is god. We’re all god.

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

History is written by the victors.

Nothing is further than earth from heaven, and nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.

The human race may be the only intelligent beings in the galaxy.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

I have never thought it necessary to patronize the American people.

America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

You always admire what you really don’t understand.

It has been discovered that all the world is made of the same atoms, that the stars are of the same stuff as ourselves. It then becomes a question of where our stuff came from. Not just where did life come from, or where did the earth come from, but where did the stuff of life and of the earth come from?

It is not love that should be depicted as blind, but self-love.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down .

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution.

There’s a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.

I love trying new things.

I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

I’m not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don’t walk away from it when something unfolds.

Memory is the way we keep telling ourselves our stories – and telling other people a somewhat different version of our stories.

Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.

If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.

Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

I actually feel like women in my position, when we have all at our disposal to help us, shouldn’t complain when we consider all of the people who are really struggling and don’t have the means or support. Many people are single, raising children. That’s hard.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

Players today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.

There is no unique picture of reality.