To try to be happy is to try to build a machine with no other specification than that it shall run noiselessly.

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.

How could we have improved ourselves, if we had not dared to read, learn and write?

Laboratory research suggests that how we look and act in the virtual affect our behavior in the real.

A truly evolved society is one which is measured by how well it treats the least of its members.

Successful people have a bigger fear of failure than people who've never done anything because if you haven't been successful, then you don't know how it feels to lose it all.

Have a belief in yourself that is bigger than anyone's disbelief.

The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.

Cycling is based so much on form, on aesthetics, on class - the way you carry yourself on the bike, the sort of technique you have.

Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking.

Sometimes I get a little tired of it. But you know, what a privilege, to get tired of working with Ingmar Bergman.

My sons named her Bridget because that way they always had their sister, Bridget, with them. People thought we were nuts because on the phone they'd hear us say, "Bridget, sit!"