The universe is wider than our views of it.

We do not know what is really good or bad fortune.

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

When you have kids, you see life through different eyes. You feel love more deeply and are maybe a little more compassionate. It’s inevitable that that would make its way into your songwriting.

Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

I think the word rich is all relative.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The way people look at me these days – that’s the same way I looked at President Obama before I met him. We tend to forget that people who’ve attained a certain position are human.

I don’t look at a man who’s expert in one area as a specialist. I look at him as a rookie in ten other areas.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

The two things in the world we all share in this world are laughter and pain. We’ve all got problems. The levels of those problems vary, but we’ve all got problems. When you can take things that are painful and make them funny, that’s a gift – to you and your audience.

The universe is very large, and its boundaries are not known very well, but it is still possible to define some kind of a radius to be associated with it.

A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

To be admitted to Nature’s hearth costs nothing. None is excluded, but excludes himself. You have only to push aside the curtain.

Even sleepers are workers and collaborators in what goes on in the Universe.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can’t see from the center.

Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.

Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.

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

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

Those parts of history that would undermine the vision of the Left – which prevails in our education system from elementary school to postgraduate study – are not likely to get much attention.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.

As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

I walk every day, and I look at the mountains and the fields and the small city, and I say: ‚Oh my God, what a blessing.‘ Then you realise it’s important to put it in a context beyond this woman, this man, this city, this country, this universe.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

There are men so philosophical that they can see humor in their own toothaches. But there has never lived a man so philosophical that he could see the toothache in his own humor.

There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can’t make anybody believe that he has it.

There are trees of a thousand sorts, and all have their several fruits; and I feel the most unhappy man in the world not to know them, for I am well assured that they are all valuable. I bring home specimens of them, and also of the land.

Adventure is worthwhile in itself.

Life is not living in the suburbs with a white picket fence. That’s not life. Somehow our American culture has made it out that that’s what life needs to be – and that if it’s not that, it’s all screwed up. It’s not.

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

Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?

I always was a rich person because money’s not related to happiness.

Mozart’s music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe.

Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads.

Probably because I’m from a middle class family, I have that nature in me that I don’t get too excited with big things.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.

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 now and then in finding a smoother pebble or prettier shell than ordinary, while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

Any experience that touches you, in any particular way, is good. It can be a horrible experience.

One can never know for sure what a deserted area looks like.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

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

It’s lack that gives us inspiration. It’s not fullness.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

In a magazine, one can get – from cover to cover – 15 to 20 different ideas about life and how to live it.

There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.

It now appears that the way the universe began can indeed be determined, using imaginary time.