This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

Don’t ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Sometimes you stumble across a few chords that put you in a reflective place.

The view of Jerusalem is the history of the world; it is more, it is the history of earth and of heaven.

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians – you are not like him.

The eye of a human being is a microscope, which makes the world seem bigger than it really is.

Fiction is not necessarily about what you know, it’s about how you feel. That is the truth about fiction, and the other truth is that all science is a tool, and we use our tools not to actualise what we know, but to implement how we feel.

For Africa to me… is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

My favorite time in the cycles of public life is the time when the Pope is dead and they haven’t elected a new one. There’s no one in the world who is infallible for those weeks. And you know, I don’t miss it.

The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

If I was just a fan of music, I would think that I was the number one artist in the world.

The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it.

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.

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

One advantage in keeping a diary is that you become aware with reassuring clarity of the changes which you constantly suffer.

What the world requires of the Christians is that they should continue to be Christians.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

I am a great fan of science, but I cannot do a quadratic equation.

There’s hope for everyone. That’s what makes the world go round.

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Obviously I faced the possibility of not returning when first I considered going. Once faced and settled there really wasn’t any good reason to refer to it.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

The Hindu religions gave me the impression of a vast well into which one plunges in order to grasp the reflection of the sun.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom… in a clarification of life – not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

I think Mozart’s operas ‚The Marriage of Figaro‘ and ‚Don Giovanni‘ are the two most perfect ever written. The music is magical.

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.

There is nothing so terrible as activity without insight.

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.

To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

The evil that is in the world almost always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

I grew up with the biologists. I know how they think.

I restore myself when I’m alone.

Yesterday’s just a memory, tomorrow is never what it’s supposed to be.

There have been times that I’ve wept as I’ve gone from city to city and I’ve seen how far people have wandered from God.

In my case Pilgrim’s Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.

Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion.

Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing up the world.

Tradition becomes our security, and when the mind is secure it is in decay.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

If you were to destroy the belief in immortality in mankind, not only love but every living force on which the continuation of all life in the world depended, would dry up at once.

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.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Technology is huge; I wanted to learn about it. People might say that’s odd, but I think it’s odd if artists aren’t interested in the world around them. I’m always chasing that.