While we are asleep in this world, we are awake in another one

There is nothing in the world that is not mysterious, but the mystery is more evident in certain things than in others: in the sea, in the eyes of the elders, in the color yellow, and in music.

I have no personal system of philosophy. I never attempt to do that. I am merely a man of letters.

Truth never penetrates an unwilling mind.

You can't measure time by days, the way you measure money by dollars and cents, because dollars are all the same while every day is different and maybe every hour as well.

Reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but ... hypotheses may not.

Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.