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.

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.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities.

His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly’s wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred.

Few are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.

I don’t want to get into it, but if you know someone, it doesn’t mean you agree with everything they say or they do.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

I love women with attitude.

If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

It is not until you become a mother that your judgment slowly turns to compassion and understanding.

Man can be understood only by ascending from physics, chemistry, biology, and geology. In other words, he is first of all a cosmic problem.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

I let the dog out, or I let him in, and we talk some. I let him know I like him, and he lets me know he likes me.

Women are the engine driving the growth in California’s economy. Women make California’s economy unique.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Men and women may form associations for and among themselves and be governed by stipulations that are mutually acceptable.

To attain any assured knowledge about the soul is one of the most difficult things in the world.

I don’t think that women need to smell interesting.

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.

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

Mathematics takes us into the region of absolute necessity, to which not only the actual word, but every possible word, must conform.

I love reading people. I really enjoy watching, observing, and being able to figure out a person, the reason they wore that dress, the reason they smell the way they do.

I just think that trusting God means we’re going to have unanswered questions, and God is so much bigger than us, we’re never going to understand them all.

Back when I was in school, few people understood dyslexia and what to do for it. My teachers thought I was lazy and not very clever, and I got bored easily… thinking of all the things I could do once I left school. I couldn’t always follow what was going on.

One of the most mawkish of human delusions is the notion that friendship should be eternal, or, at all events, life-long, and that any act which puts a term to it is somehow discreditable.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

I’m not claiming divinity. I’ve never claimed purity of soul. I’ve never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can… But I still believe in peace, love and understanding.

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

You either believe that people respond to authority, or that they respond to kindness and inclusion. I’m obviously in the latter camp. I think that people respond better to reward than punishment.

The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax.

Jesus is a divine guest inside of you all the time – one who loves, understands, sees and hears you. He wants to live in oneness with you… to be the centerpiece of everything you do.

Because atomic behavior is so unlike ordinary experience, it is very difficult to get used to, and it appears peculiar and mysterious to everyone – both to the novice and to the experienced physicist.

I have a deep, deep belief that if I tell you I’m going to crack you with a clean shot to the chin inside one minute of the first round and you will be unconscious, well, then that’s what will happen.

Science is increasingly answering questions that used to be the province of religion.

In the past, there was active discrimination against women in science. That has now gone, and although there are residual effects, these are not enough to account for the small numbers of women, particularly in mathematics and physics.

When I say something’s going to happen, it’s going to happen.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too.

I’m an atheist, and the concept of god for me is all part of what I call ‚the last illusion.‘ The last illusion is someone knows what is going on. Nearly everyone has that illusion somewhere, and it manifests not only in the terms of the idea that there is a god but that it knows what’s going on but that the planets know what’s going on.

There are some women I definitely would not want to succeed me… but a man like David Souter, that would be great.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we’re all the same.

It ain’t those parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand.

A sense of the universe, a sense of the all, the nostalgia which seizes us when confronted by nature, beauty, music – these seem to be an expectation and awareness of a Great Presence.

We think we have solved the mystery of creation. Maybe we should patent the universe and charge everyone royalties for their existence.

If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person.

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

The Internet is just another experiment showing us more sides of us.

If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don’t just be mad at him or her.

It’s going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.