I owe as much of my success to an uncompromising obstinacy as to any original ideas.

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.

You showed me myself, and nobody else in the world could have done that, because there’s nobody I have ever loved the way I love you. I owe you all of that.

I knew without a glimmer of doubt that all things in the universe were connected by a living truth that would not relent its continuing search for wholeness until every form of life was united.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

The atomic bomb embodies the results of a combination genius and patience as remarkable as any in the history of mankind.

It's an exciting adventure to give those things that you've always held onto.

If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.

Mussolini once said that saints are insane people. What about those who believe in saints? Are they sane?

Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?

There is no future without education.