Imagination

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.

Gravitational Pull

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Love At First Sight

Love at first sight is easy to understand;

it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.

Fame

Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well,

and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

Attitude

The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.

Opportunity

Opportunity is missed by most because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

Peace

Peace is not the absence of war;

it is a virtue; a state of mind;

a disposition for benevolence;

confidence;

and justice.

Science

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle;

wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

View

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

Responsibility

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

Success

My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general;
if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope."
Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

Realize

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Perfection

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart, for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Myth

A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world.

Mother

Before you were conceived I wanted you

Before you were born I loved you

Before you were here an hour I would die for you

This is the miracle of life.

Sweet Song

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

Dogs

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Nature

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Ways of life from Rail

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

Art

Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own.

Nature

Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere.