Love is a better master than duty.
No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.
We know from daily life that we exist for other people first of all, for whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.
The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.
All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.
Dancers are the athletes of God.
Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.
I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.
Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.
Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.
Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.
God is subtle but he is not malicious.
It is harder to crack prejudice than an atom.
Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.
Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
Although I am a typical loner in my daily life, my awareness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has prevented me from feelings of isolation.