The really happy person is the one who can enjoy the scenery, even when they have to take a detour.[make the best of what is necessary...if you can't have what you love, love what you have...as there are lovable or at least positive aspects in everything, because anything could be worse]

The universe can best be pictured as consisting of pure thought, the thought of what for want of a better word we must describe as a mathematical thinker.

The motion of the stars over our heads is as much an illusion as that of the cows, trees and churches that flash past the windows of our train.

Put three grains of sand inside a vast cathedral, and the cathedral will be more closely packed with sand than space is with stars.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

All discussion of the ultimate nature of things must necessarily be barren unless we have some extraneous standards against which to compare them.