“Stability can only be attained by inactive matter.”

One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.

We must keep our certainty that after the bad days the good times will come again.

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.

It was like a new world opened to me, the world of science, which I was at last permitted to know in all liberty.

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.

You will find that one special love that you know is right but for some reason just doesn’t last.

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals.

Life is not easy for any for us.

I am among those who think that science has great beauty.

It is my earnest desire that some of you should carry on this scientific work and keep for your ambition the determination to make a permanent contribution to science.

All my life through, the new sights of nature made me rejoice like a child.

More and more, I feel the need for a house and a garden.

All that I saw and learned was a new delight to me.

Radium is not to enrich any one. It is an element; it is for all people.

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

I have to actively put effort into reminding myself of how far I’ve come so I do not only pay attention to how far I have yet to go.

Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.

I hope people become inspired to become active in their community. That’s the important thing.

I just keep active – everything thats challenging me, everything that I feel like doing.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

The racist rhetoric from politicians is inspiring people to organize, as more people see what happens by not getting active.

Untrained warriors are soon killed on the battlefield; so also persons untrained in the art of preserving their inner peace are quickly riddled by the bullets of worry and restlessness in active life.