I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

Tea should be taken in solitude.

The universe rings true whenever you fairly test it.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

Straight tribulation is easier to bear than tribulation which advertises itself as pleasure.

That is why I often find myself at such cross-purposes with the modern world: I have been a converted Pagan living among apostate Puritans.

I fancy that most of those who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years.

Divine punishment are also mercies.

It is not settled happiness but momentary joy that glorifies the past.

The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it.

I don't want to have these burdens. But I can't bear to turn them over to anyone else, either. Because, despite all the work, I like being in control of my own life.

What the theologian shrinks from, the poet grasps intuitively.

Noble ancestry makes a poor dish at table.

The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

The highway of life was littered with the roadkill of those who didn't know when to change lanes.

I don't rehash the past. It's my baggage. That's all. I accept things as they are.

What you do as president has consequences.

Settle yourself in solitude, and you will come upon God in yourself.