The lot of man is ceaseless labor, Or ceaseless idleness, which is still harder.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications.

April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain.

The journey, Not the destination matters.

I wish there would be more movies about scientists.

Why shouldn't a car key look like a car?

It feels so great to be back on the scene.

I am ridiculously old-fashioned.

Since it's now fashionable to laugh at the conservative French Academy, I have remained a rebel by joining it.

I try to move people emotionally.

I'm grateful I've got my mind. I can take care of my own business.

We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore.

Man is not on the earth solely for his own happiness. He is there to realize great things for humanity.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.