Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?

What separates me from most so-called atheists is a feeling of utter humility toward the unattainable secrets of the harmony of the cosmos.

Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."

If you've never failed, you've never tried anything new.

I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience.

I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives.

The only source of knowledge is experience.