Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.

For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.

Some newspapers are fit only to line the bottom of bird cages.

Enthusiasm... the sustaining power of all great action.

After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

A place for everything, and everything in its place.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

The two offices of memory are collection and distribution.

I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

To find a man's true character, play golf with him.

Each soul is potentially divine.

When it is not in our power to determine what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Sunlight is painting.