Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

Remember why we live. Remember warmth, remember good food. Remember friends, and song, and evenings spent around the hearth.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

Money will buy a pretty good dog but it won't buy the wag of his tail.

There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic.

No amount of energy will take the place of thought. A strenuous life with its eyes shut is a kind of wild insanity.

From triumph to downfall there is but one step. I have noted that, in the most momentous occasions, mere nothings have always decided the outcome of the greatest events.

To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god .

I do not mean that others represent Jesus for us. I mean that Jesus actually is present in each other person

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told.