Of what significance is one's existence, one is basically unaware. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life? The bitter and the sweet come from outside. The hard from within, from one's own efforts. For the most part I do what my own nature drives me to do. It is embarrassing to earn such respect and love for it.

There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact.

All meaningful and lasting change starts first in your imagination and then works its way out. Imagination is more important than knowledge.

The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the road to the religious paradise; but it has shown itself reliable, and I have never regretted having chosen it.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.