“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”

If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects.

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Never memorize something that you can look up.

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.

Art is the contemplation of the world in a state of grace.

Only by art can we get outside ourselves, instead of seeing only one world, our own, we see it under multiple forms.

We think and name in one world, we live and feel in another.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world, our own, we see it multiplied and as many original artists as there are, so many worlds are at our disposal.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

I’m a trained engineer, so I’m conditioned to come up with a right answer to a difficult question, but when it comes to art, there is no definite answer because it’s so subjective.

It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born.