The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.

Thinking is difficult, that’s why most people judge.

Life really does begin at forty. Up until then, you are just doing research.

To be normal is the ultimate aim of the unsuccessful.

Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you.

The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know, the world will tell you.

The difference between a good life and a bad life is how well you walk through the fire

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

We are not what happened to us, we are what we wish to become.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it.

We are all somebody to people, whose lives we do not touch.

He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat.

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

When you have two people, separate beings, trying to share one life together. That's always going to have difficulties.

At the top of the cycle you write policies for everybody, no matter how bad, and at the bottom you cancel everybody, no matter how good. It's a manic-depressive cycle.

If I have cash and I can't figure a way to put it into real estate or my business, I hold it in gold and silver.

First rule of engineering; beware prototypes. Along with, avoid anything made by an engineer who doesn't have all his own fingers.

The Long Earth is bountiful but not forgiving.

I've got scarves and boots from' 1970 that I still wear.