The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man.

For every one billion particles of antimatter there were one billion and one particles of matter. And when the mutual annihilation was complete, one billionth remained - and that's our present universe.

I don't need to know everything, I just need to know where to find it, when I need it

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

Human beings can attain a worthy and harmonious life only if they are able to rid themselves, within the limits of human nature, of the striving for the wish fulfillment of material kinds. The goal is to raise the spiritual values of society.

It is impossible to get out of a problem by using the same kind of thinking that it took to get into it.