The universe is wider than our views of it.

The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

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

Anytime I feel lost, I pull out a map and stare. I stare until I have reminded myself that life is a giant adventure, so much to do, to see.

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.

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.

The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.

I don’t pretend to understand the Universe – it’s a great deal bigger than I am.

For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein’s general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.

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.

It isn’t what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.

People see things differently and remember things differently. It’s why if somebody robs a liquor store and there are four witnesses they’ll often disagree.

Most of our lives aren’t that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything.

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

Reality simply consists of different points of view.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

Who is the most sensible person? The one who finds what is to their own advantage in all that happens to them.

What one fool can understand, another can.

I think the word rich is all relative.

At first when I heard about climate change, I was a climate denier. I didn’t think it was happening. Because if there really was an existential crisis like that, that would threaten our civilisation, we wouldn’t be focusing on anything else. That would be our first priority. So I didn’t understand how that added up.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic.

There is so much that people take for granted.

I think fish is nice, but then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge?

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Before the effect one believes in different causes than one does after the effect.

An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it’s beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth… Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of trouble.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, ‚This is a misfortune‘ but ‚To bear this worthily is good fortune.‘

I’m more of a realist when it comes to life, and I’d much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.

He that is giddy thinks the world turns round.

It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

Being ‚contented‘ ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

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

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn’t mean what you have isn’t beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have – no one is ever 100 per cent like, ‚Yes, I’m the bomb dot com – from head to toe!‘

You can’t have it all, all at once. Who – man or woman – has it all, all at once? Over my lifespan, I think I have had it all. But in different periods of time, things were rough. And if you have a caring life partner, you help the other person when that person needs it.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Money can’t buy life.

I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it.

There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it.

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.

For me, the real earth is that chosen part of the universe, still almost universally dispersed and in course of gradual segregation, but which is little by little taking on body and form in Christ.

To God everything is beautiful, good, and just; humans, however, think some things are unjust and others just.

Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe.

Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.

My justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.

One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.

I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun.