"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
"Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy."
"If there is any religion that could respond to the needs of modern science, it would be Buddhism."
"One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."
"You can't blame gravity for falling in love."