If everybody lived as I do, surely the writing of romance novels would never have come into being.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

There is an atmosphere of well-sounding oratory that likes to attach itself to dress clothes. Away with it!

The feeling for what ought and ought not to be grows and dies like a tree, and no fertilizer of any kind will do much good. What the individual can do is give a fine example, and have the courage to firmly uphold ethical convictions in a society of cynics. I have for a long time tried to conduct myself this way, with varying success.

The most important question a person can ask is, "Is the Universe a friendly place?

I was just more stubborn and more passionate than most about physics.

The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!