The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life.

There lies the weaknesss of positivists and professional atheists who are elated because they feel that they have not only successfully rid the world of gods but "bared the miracles." (That is, explained the miracles. - ed.) Oddly enough, we must be satisfied to acknowledge the "miracle" without there being any legitimate way for us to approach it . I am forced to add that just to keep you from thinking that -weakened by age-I have fallen prey to the clergy.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

As the area of light expands, so does the perimeter of darkness.

Everything is energy and that’s all there is to it.

Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head because I have not answered the old ones.

If tomorrow were never to come, it would not be worth living today.