The sensitive plate, the gas which is ionised, the fluorescent screen, are in reality receivers, into another kind of energy, chemical energy, ionic energy... luminous energy.

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

First principle: never to let one's self be beaten down by persons or by events.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.

Each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

The older one gets, the more one feels that the present must be enjoyed; it is a precious gift, comparable to a state of grace

As long as you’re breathing, your story’s still going.

She won't know it if I'm not say it." Say that 3 times, and you should know what's the main problem.

When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.

When a man tells you what people are saying about you, tell him what people are saying about him; that will immediately take his mind off your troubles.

My own early experiences in war led me to suspect the value of discipline, even in that sphere where it is so often regarded as the first essential for success.

The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them know anything about the subject.

A lot changed when I had Natasha. I'm a survivor.

abundance is in crucial ways a state of mind.

Men remain in ignorance as long as they hate, and they hate unjustly as long as they remain in ignorance.

Realize that the surface personality has no interest in anything which might disturb its darling delusions.