Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm.

If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.

Whatever there be of progress in life comes not through adaptation but through daring.

In expanding the field of knowledge we but increase the horizon of ignorance.

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the heart.

either you take in believing in miracles or you stand still like the hummingbird.

Chaos is the score upon which reality is written.

Art is only a means to life, the life more abundant. It merely points the way.

Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

If we don't fight for what we 'stand for' with our passionate words and honest actions, do we really 'stand' for anything?

I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

Makeup can help you capture a moment.

You love each other – anyone can see that, looking at you – that kind of love that can burn down the world or raise it up in glory.

Nothing in the constitutions of Western states requires them to get involved in every foreign conflict.

You don't have to feel like a waste of space, your original can not be replaced

It is wonderful to be in on the creation of something, see it used, and then walk away and smile at it.

Some of it just involved thinking about, for example, the different kinds of science, what chemistry is.

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.