Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.

I wish to do something Great and Wonderful, but I must start by doing the little things like they were Great and Wonderful

The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else.

One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have.

When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.