We’re one of the only animals in the world that don’t really think of ourselves as animals, but we are animals, and we must respect our fellow animals.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

History isn’t just the story of bad people doing bad things. It’s quite as much a story of people trying to do good things. But somehow, something goes wrong.

I have made a few mistakes early on that I admit myself, and there have been times when I have gone over the top and done things that you shouldn’t do in international cricket, but that’s how you learn.

Among physicists, I’m respected I hope.

One of the things I realized is that if you do not take control over your time and your life, other people will gobble it up. If you don’t prioritize yourself, you constantly start falling lower and lower on your list, your kids fall lower and lower on your list.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

You’re always learning. The problem is, sometimes you stop and think you understand the world. This is not correct. The world is always moving. You never reach the point you can stop making an effort.

I can see, and that is why I can be happy, in what you call the dark, but which to me is golden. I can see a God-made world, not a manmade world.

The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion’s roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance.

Development of outlook naturally begins with a respect for God… Reverence to God and reverence for one’s neighbor and reverence for oneself as a servant of God.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

A large part of mankind is angry not with the sins, but with the sinners.

First, I’m trying to prove to myself that I’m a person. Then maybe I’ll convince myself that I’m an actress.

Overall there’s going to be things I’m not great at.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

The true identity theft is not financial. It’s not in cyberspace. It’s spiritual. It’s been taken.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

I did used to have nightmares about the idea that when I die, there is a spark of consciousness which basically creates the world. ‚Is the world going to disappear if this spark of consciousness disappears? And how do I know it won’t? How do I know there’s anything there except what I’m conscious of?‘

The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Never say there is nothing beautiful in the world anymore. There is always something to make you wonder in the shape of a tree, the trembling of a leaf.

When I’m getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Everyone has at least one story, and each of us is funny if we admit it. You have to admit you’re the funniest person you’ve ever heard of.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.

The coniferous forests of the Yosemite Park, and of the Sierra in general, surpass all others of their kind in America, or indeed the world, not only in the size and beauty of the trees, but in the number of species assembled together, and the grandeur of the mountains they are growing on.

I have no hostility to nature, but a child’s love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

Observe all men, thyself most.

I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

There’s no way to remove the observer – us – from our perceptions of the world.

Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

Dogs are better than human beings because they know but do not tell.

I am, as a character, at times, a little overbearing. I recognize that.

It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.

Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

Just because I managed to do a little something, I don’t want anyone back home to think I got the big head.

Sheep, like people, are ungovernable when hungry.

Flowers… are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

‚O sleep, O gentle sleep,‘ I thought gratefully, ‚Nature’s soft nurse!‘

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

Memories are thoughts that arise. They’re not realities. Only when you believe that they are real, then they have the power over you. But when you realize it’s just another thought arising about the past, then you can have a spacious relationship with that thought. The thought no longer has you in its grip.

If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.

The only difference between me and a madman is that I’m not mad.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

We are never further from what we wish than when we believe that we have what we wished for.

To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself into a victim. When you speak out, you are in your power. So change the situation by taking action or by speaking out if necessary or possible; leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness.

Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.

I particularly admire are Mark Twain and Jerome K. Jerome who wrote in a certain tone of voice which was humane and understanding of humanity, but always ready to annotate its little foibles. I think I’d lay my cards down on that, and say that it’s that that I’m trying to do.

Be as you wish to seem.

I know I’m a good professional, I know that no one’s harder on me than myself and that’s never going to change, under any circumstances.