Never lose a holy curiosity.

[I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth.

I always found I was in the best of company, alone.

When I was young, all I wanted and expected from life was to sit quietly in some corner doing my work without the public paying attention to me. And now see what has become of me.

Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all.

How vile and despicable war seems to me! I would rather be hacked to pieces than take part in such an abominable business.

It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.