All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.

The essential fact is that all the pictures which science now draws of nature, and which alone seem capable of according with observational facts, are mathematical pictures.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

Science should leave off making pronouncements: the river of knowledge has too often turned back on itself.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

...to many it is not knowledge but the quest for knowledge that gives greater interest to thought-to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

The human race, whose intelligence dates back only a single tick of the astronomical clock, could hardly hope to understand so soon what it all means.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

One must stand stiller than still. On reverse time travel.

God is a great healer.

That lovely face sets off a fire inside me that isn't ever supposed to burn.

Heaven doesn't ignore cries of a broken heart.

I hope the people remember Dolce & Gabbana for the sensuality, for the Mediterranean sense, for our honesty to the life.

Poetry cannot be defined, only experienced

I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim, and now I am overwhelmed by this decent and good feeling.

And there should not be a limit on the creation of new public schools. We ought to expand choices for parents.

I learned long ago that being Lewis Carroll was infinitely more exciting than being Alice.

The poverty from which I have suffered could be diagnosed as 'Soho' poverty. It comes from having the airs and graces of a genius and no talent.