God does not play dice [with the universe]. [Ger., Gott wurfelt nicht.]

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

God is clever but not dishonest.

Try not to become a man of success but rather a man of value.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

Hyacinth. Please forgive me.

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.

Love is as necessary to human beings as food and shelter; [but] without intelligence, ... love is impotent and freedom unattainable.

I am a villain, but I'm not your villain.

People ask me how far I've come. And I tell them twelve feet: from the audience to the stage.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

We don't propose to sit here in our rocking chair with our hands folded and let the Communists set up any government in the Western Hemisphere.

To understand how people organize social systems, we have to discover the principles that we create to make some societies intelligible.

Most of the people in Ghana wouldn't know me as an actress. They'd know me for my work at the U.N.

There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.