All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story.

The more I see, the less I know for sure.

Science is the outcome of being prepared to live without certainty and therefore a mark of maturity. It embraces doubt and loose ends.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them

Life is a difficult game. You can win it only by retaining your birthright to be a person.

In the end, everything is a gag.

If people do not believe that mathematics is simple, it is only because they do not realize how complicated life is.

The natural world is the greatest source of excitement. The greatest source of visual beauty. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.

Quick sensitivity is inseperable from a ready understanding.

Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power.

You can find the entire cosmos lurking in its least remarkable objects.

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

The worldly comforts are not for me. I am like a traveller, who takes rest under a tree in the shade and then goes on his way.

Life has a certain flavour for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

It would please me best if, at the last, a marble stone shall record that this Queen having lived such and such a time, lived and died a virgin.

Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.