Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Telling someone something he does not understand is pointless, even if you add that he will not be able to understand it.

Perhaps what is inexpressible (what I find mysterious and am not able to express) is the background against which whatever I could express has its meaning.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.

A picture of a complete apple tree, however accurate, is in a certain sense much less like the tree itself than is a little daisy.

Ideas too sometimes fall from the tree before they are ripe.

What is good is also divine. Queer as it sounds, that sums up my ethics. Only something supernatural can express the Supernatural.

Talent is a spring from which fresh water is constantly flowing. But this spring loses its value if it is not used in the right way.

Christianity is not a doctrine, not, I mean, a theory about what has happened & will happen to the human soul, but a description of something that actually takes place in human life.

If you have a light, meet the world or let the world meets you!

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

There's the concept that if I do this big budget project, then that will help me do the things I really want to do and bring more money to those films.

Shane Warne's idea of a balanced diet is a cheeseburger in each hand

When government tries to make people more equal, it makes them more unequal.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

Television is just the wrong medium, at least in prime time, to teach science. I think it is hopeless if it insists on behaving like television. . . .

I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.

Virtue's office never breaks men's troth.