Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Every once in a while I get the highly inappropriate proposal which is like, ‚Wow, Really! You don’t even know me and I don’t know you at all, and you want that to happen? Tonight? Ok, I get off work at 7.30.‘

I knew I was blessed with a gift of having both parents.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they’re already asleep.

Where there’s marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

Before I lost my voice, it was slurred, so only those close to me could understand, but with the computer voice, I found I could give popular lectures. I enjoy communicating science. It is important that the public understands basic science, if they are not to leave vital decisions to others.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Understanding is a two-way street.

Let there be no purpose in friendship save the deepening of the spirit.

You pay a certain penalty for going your own way. A lot of people think you’re nuts, and you’re not as popular with girls as you should be.

It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it.

Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

I’ve had moments when I’ve thought about somebody, picked up the phone to call them and they are on the line already, and I think that maybe there’s some vibration, some connection.

Part of me feels you can’t say you were truly in love if it didn’t last. If I end up getting married and having kids, that’s when I’ll know it’s real – because it lasted.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

We must accept what science tells us, that man was born from the earth. But, more logical than the scientists who lecture us, we must carry this lesson to its conclusion: that is to say, accept that man was born entirely from the world – not only his flesh and bones but his incredible power of thought.

I always play women I would date.

It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

We loved with a love that was more than love.

If every man loves his mother, he’s going to treat the ladies right, with love and respect.

Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.

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

No matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it.

I carry a small sheet of paper in my wallet that has written on it the names of people whose opinions of me matter. To be on that list, you have to love me for my strengths and struggles.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives energy.

Gentle dullness ever loves a joke.

Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

I love New York. I’m a guy for whom a New York accent is a comforting thing.

As a father and now a grandfather to three wonderful grandchildren, I know how magical the first year of a child’s life is but also how much hard work it takes. Being able to spend as much time as possible with your loved ones is absolutely vital, especially early on.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

I would never win an award for not loving pizza.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

What’s really hard is that you could care a lot for someone and not want to live with him anymore.

I don’t like cream puff, corny guys. Usually, they are the nice guys, the ones that won’t hurt you. They’ll pull out the chair for you and the whole nine yards. Everything is perfect and boring.

The strongest influences in my life and my work are always whomever I love. Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?

A poet never takes notes. You never take notes in a love affair.

Friends accept you the way you are.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

God may exist, but science can explain the universe without the need for a creator.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

In each soul, God loves and partly saves the whole world which that soul sums up in an incommunicable and particular way.

We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love – first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage.

My wife and I don’t compete. We know each other’s preferences, and we work to provide those for each other. One will take over when the other is faced with something he or she dislikes. That’s what friends do.

It’s very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.

Really showing love requires more than just words.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

The product of mental labor – science – always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production.

I’ve missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

Women may fall when there’s no strength in men.