I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.
Faith is a leap into the light, not a step into the darkness.
Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.
Do you know what elegance is? It is not only what you're wearing. It is how you wear it. who you are inside.
Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been. . . I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.
Do not ask your children to strive for extraordinary lives. Such striving may seem admirable, but it is the way of foolishness. Help them instead to find the wonder and the marvel of an ordinary life. Show them the joy of tasting tomatoes, apples and pears. Show them how to cry when pets and people die. Show them the infinite pleasure in the touch of a hand. And make the ordinary come alive for them. The extraordinary will take care of itself.
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
All problems become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble.
Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.
Since one never knows what will be the line of advance, it is always most rash to condemn what is not quite in the fashion of the moment.
Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
The eloquent man is he who is no beautiful speaker, but who is inwardly and desperately drunk with a certain belief.
Surely the world we live in is but the world that lives in us.
It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself.
The timid and fearful first failures dismay, but the stout heart stays trying by night and by day. He values his failures as lessons that teach The one way to get to the goal he would reach.
If you marry for money you will earn every penny.
I want to know all Gods thoughts; all the rest are just details.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.