The woman who follows the crowd will usually believe that I said this.

Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.

Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations.

Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.

Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion.

The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man.

You can move through life seeing nothing as a miracle, or seeing everything as a miracle.