Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds. (quoting the Bhagavad-Gita after witnessing the first Nuclear explosion.)

Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

There are children playing in the streets who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.

Genius sees the answer before the question.

There are no secrets about the world of nature. There are secrets about the thoughts and intentions of men.

The people of this world must unite or they will perish.

When we deny the EVIL within ourselves, we dehumanize ourselves, and we deprive ourselves not only of our own destiny but of any possibility of dealing with the EVIL of others.

We may be likened to two scorpions in a bottle, each capable of killing the other, but only at the risk of his own life.

I trust the Universe Implicitly, therefore my experience is happening FOR me and not TO me. I trust the Universe. I trust the process.

Life is a worthwhile adventure.

Better is the little of the righteous than the abundance of many wicked.

I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

There is no more alluring airspace in the world than the slit up a China girl's dress.

Plenty of times, I haven't been able to wear certain clothes because they didn't come in my size.

When you become such a strong personality in music, it's hard for people to accept you as a different character.

I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

I wonder if I would have been capable of producing anything if I worked in a more conventional way with a prewritten script, because I'm of the procrastinator class.

You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. What's left ? It's all downhill from there. You've got to set your sights on something higher than Everest.