“God does not play dice with the universe.”

You never fail until you stop trying.

If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.

I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university

Any fool can know. The point is to understand.

There is no vaccine against stupidity.

I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious.

Don’t listen to the person who has the answers; listen to the person who has the questions.

Be a voice not an echo.

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.

We dance for laughter, we dance for tears, we dance for madness, we dance for fears, we dance for hopes, we dance for screams, we are the dancers, we create the dreams.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

Genius is 1% talent and 99% percent hard work.

If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

Considering that the blessed life we so long for consists in an intimate and true love of God Our Creator and Lord, which binds and obliges us all to a sincere love.

We are in God and God whom we do not see is in us.

Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God.

The more completely we focus our attention on our Creator and Lord, the less chance there is of our being distracted by creatures.

The soul is in God and God in the soul, just as the fish is in the sea and the sea in the fish.

Man’s salvation and perfection consists of doing the will of God which he must have in view in all things, and at every moment of his life.

On the question of relating to our fellowman – our neighbor’s spiritual need transcends every commandment. Everything else we do is a means to an end. But love is an end already, since God is love.

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.