“I love mankind, he said, “but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.”

Right or wrong, it’s very pleasant to break something from time to time.

It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.

To live without Hope is to Cease to live.

A hundred suspicions don’t make a proof.

I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there – that is living.

The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth.

Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don’t say that you’ve wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being.

The darker the night, the brighter the stars, The deeper the grief, the closer is God!

Beauty will save the world.

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

To love someone means to see them as God intended them.

This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness.

To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.

Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

When I was young I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

I was amazed to receive later a substantial sum for sitting in my room and talking about myself. If only I could get some of the back pay!

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

I’m always amazed that my wife can handle different subjects – one day politics, the next day foreign policy.

Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence.

We have got to abandon that sense of amazement in the face of creativity, as if it were a miracle that anybody created anything.

Being infinitely amazed, so do I give thanks to God, Who has been pleased to make me the first observer of marvelous things, unrevealed to bygone ages.

Attention, if sudden and close, graduates into surprise; and this into astonishment; and this into stupefied amazement.