So I am just sitting and waiting, listening, and if something exciting comes, I just jump in.

It took less than an hour to make the atoms, a few hundred million years to make the stars and planets, but five billion years to make man!

There was a young fellow from Trinity, Who took the square root of infinity. But the number of digits, Gave him the fidgets; He dropped Math and took up Divinity.

Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star Biggest puzzle from afar How unlike the other ones Brighter than a billion suns Twinkle, twinkle, quasi-star How I wonder what you are.

Whereas all humans have approximately the same life expectancy the life expectancy of stars varies as much as from that of a butterfly to that of an elephant.

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

Do you think there could be a universe next door?

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

Half the fun of writing a novel is finding out from other people later on what you actually meant.

Why is it that we want what we don't have, yet we can't see what we do have?

To seek Truth is to deny Truth to being with. To seek Truth is to avoid Truth, constantly.

There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart.

One's own self is well hidden from one's own self; of all mines of treasure, one's own is the last to be dug up.

In the direction that your fear is growing, you're on the right path.

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call.

I abhor Saddam's regime, but the basis has to be disarmament.