A lonely day is God’s way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.

How strange is the lot of us mortals! Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose he knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it.

When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. When life is bitter, say thank you and grow.

Never memorize something that you can look up.

Detachment is not that you should own nothing but that nothing should own you

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

God always takes the simplest way.

God always takes the simplest way.

Mankind invented the atomic bomb, but no mouse would ever construct a mousetrap.

Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.

To lose balance sometimes for love is part of living a balanced life.

All of one’s contemporaries and aging friends are living in a delicate balance, and one feels that one’s own consciousness is no longer as brightly lit as it once was. But then, twilight with its more subdued colors has its charms as well.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

On how he sees himself: A person with no roots anywhere…a stranger everywhere.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.

I lived in solitude in the country and noticed how the monotony of a quiet life stimulates the creative mind.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

There is far too great a disproportion between what one is and what others think one is, or at least what they say they think one is. But one has to take it all with good humor.

Of course, understanding of our fellow-beings is important. But this understanding becomes fruitful only when it is sustained by sympathetic feeling in joy and in sorrow. The cultivation of this most important spring of moral action is that which is left of religion when it has been purified of the elements of superstition.

Behind every beautiful thing, there’s been some kind of pain.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment.

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

Many times a day I realize how much my outer and inner life is based upon the labors of my fellow men, both living and dead, and how much I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

Beauty is ordained by nature to excite love.

It is an irony of fate that I myself have been the recipient of excessive admiration and reverence from my fellow-beings, through no fault or merit of my own.

In true love, you attain freedom.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

Beauty is when you can appreciate yourself. When you love yourself, that’s when you’re most beautiful.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

Beauty has so many forms, and I think the most beautiful thing is confidence and loving yourself.

A man’s value to the community depends primarily on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows.

Each of us visits this Earth involuntarily, and without an invitation. For me, it is enough to wonder at the secrets.

The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.

Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind.

There is nothing more beautiful than seeing a person being themselves. Imagine going through your day being unapologetically you.

On education: The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society; it is that education which in the main is founded upon the desire for successful activity and acknowledgment.

Studying, and striving for truth and beauty in general, is a sphere in which we are allowed to be children throughout life.

If love is blind, then maybe a blind person that loves has a greater understanding of it.

Today also there is an urge toward social progress, toward tolerance and freedom of thought, toward a larger political unity… But the students at our universities have ceased as completely as their teachers to embody the hopes and ideals of the people.

The most valuable thing a teacher can impart to children is not knowledge and understanding per se but a longing for knowledge and understanding, and an appreciation for intellectual values, whether they be artistic, scientific, or moral.

I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express it in words afterwards.

I do not ask how the wounded person feels. I myself become the wounded.

I love her, and that’s the beginning and end of everything.