When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy.

A photograph can be an instant of life captured for eternity that will never cease looking back at you.

When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

In terms of an identity, an identity reflects an individuality, by definition. And, if there is a quality present, it is recognizable and it can be named. If you can't name it, it means you don't recognize it.

Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

When the student is ready, the teacher will appear.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.?

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

You can have anything in this world you want, if you want it badly enough and you're willing to pay the price.

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Modesty and conscientiousness receive their reward only in novels. In life they are exploited and then shoved aside.

We are all worms, but I do believe that I am a glow-worm.