The universe can take quite a while to deliver.

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.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy.

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

Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in.

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

Genius is patience.

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.

It’s time for the human race to enter the solar system.

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

When I tell a child something the first time, I’m nice. The 15th time, I start to get aggravated.

The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.

When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.

Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

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

Time discovers truth.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years.

If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited – that has music and rhythm and time.

No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters.

Love is an adventure and a conquest. It survives and develops, like the universe itself, only by perpetual discovery.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Let man live at a distance from God, and the universe remains neutral or hostile to him. But let man believe in God, and immediately all around him the elements, even the irksome, of the inevitable organize themselves into a friendly whole, ordered to the ultimate success of life.

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own; and from morning to night, as from the cradle to the grave, it is but a succession of changes so gentle and easy that we can scarcely mark their progress.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

I believe time wounds all heels.

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

The one thing about the business of entertainment is that you have to learn patience.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I don’t think that the total creation took place in six days as we now measure time. If we can confirm, say, the Big Bang theory, that doesn’t at all cause me to question my faith that God created the Big Bang.

Our soul is cast into a body, where it finds number, time, dimension. Thereupon it reasons, and calls this nature necessity, and can believe nothing else.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

One of the most important decisions you’ll ever make is choosing the kind of universe you exist in: is it helpful and supportive or hostile and unsupportive? Your answer to this question will make all the difference in terms of how you live your life and what kind of Divine assistance you attract.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

If you’re holding out for universal popularity, I’m afraid you will be in this cabin for a very long time.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Almost anything can be funny if said the right way – but it has to be said the right way.

It’s possible – you can never know – that the universe exists only for me. If so, it’s sure going well for me, I must admit.

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing.

That’s the shock: All cliches are true. The years really do speed by. Life really is as short as they tell you it is. And there really is a God – so do I buy that one? If all the other cliches are true… Hell, don’t pose me that one.

The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.

Love in all its subtleties is nothing more, and nothing less, than the more or less direct trace marked on the heart of the element by the psychical convergence of the universe upon itself.

I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

‚I wish life was not so short,‘ he thought. ‚Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about.‘

It was Einstein’s dream to discover the grand design of the universe, a single theory that explains everything. However, physicists in Einstein’s day hadn’t made enough progress in understanding the forces of nature for that to be a realistic goal.

I say that in the most humble way: I always knew that I could perform with the best of ‚em and I could deliver with the best of ‚em.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Many a man thinks he is patient when, in reality, he is indifferent.