Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way.

The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.

If someone feels that he has never made a mistake in his life, it only means that he has never tried anything new in his life.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.