Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.

In oratory the will must predominate.

Sudden resolutions, like the sudden rise of mercury in a barometer, indicate little else than the variability of the weather.

Poetry is the key to the hieroglyphics of nature.

The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe.

Smiles are the language of love.

When you get older, then you feel death not at the end of the road, but death all around you, in everything. Life is saturated with death. I feel death everywhere.

Weak minds sink under prosperity as well as adversity; but strong and deep ones have two high tides.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

No one but a fool is always right.

Style is the art of getting yourself out of the way, not putting yourself in it.

If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.

People used to live lives of quiet desperation - now they go on talk shows!

Most scientists like to operate in the context of economy. If you don't need an explanatory principle, don't invoke it.

I pick up other people's trash. I'm sort of obsessed.

Although reading the classics in Latin in school may be not as fulfilling as it would be at a more mature age, few scientists can afford the time for such diversion later in life.

We think that a powerful and vigorous movement is impossible without differences - "true conformity" is possible only in the cemetery.

The world is made by the people who show up for the job.

Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form, grace, strength, compactness, and the hardness and brilliance of a diamond.

Sometimes you need to let people feel important by disliking you. It's their little happiness.

The busy bee has no time for sorrow.