A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Live each day as if your life had just begun.

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

We do not have to visit a madhouse to find disordered minds; our planet is the mental institution of the universe.

Every day we should hear at least one little song, read one good poem, see one exquisite picture, and, if possible, speak a few sensible words.

The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. Whatever you think you can do, or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, power and grace.

Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

At the moment of commitment the entire universe conspires to assist you.

Courage is the commitment to begin without any guarantee of success.

If I accept you as you are, I will make you worse; however, if I treat you as though you are what you are capable of becoming, I help you become that.

There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.

I'm sorry for breaking down when I should've been stitching myself back up

If wisdom is a place, you should be the wisest one to live there..

A bird cannot fly with one wing only. Human space flight cannot develop any further without the active participation of women.

India and Japan should develop a complementary relationship in information technology.

If one takes all the styles in jazz harmonically from the earliest beginnings to the latest experiments, he still has a rather limited scope when compared to the rest of music in the world.

Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.

I was escaping from Nature and at last becoming myself, that Other whom I was aspiring to be in the eyes of others.

I'm very hungry and there's still a lot to do. Rather than look at what I've conquered already and say "yeah, that was the greatest so far," right now I just stay hungry and keep moving forward.

I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.

I've never heard a person say, 'I had a rotten mother, but she's such a great physicist.