"The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head."
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
"All we know of the Missing Link is that he is missing - and he won't be missed either."
"Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality."
"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances that we know to be desperate."
"That is the one eternal education: to be sure enough that something is true that you dare to tell it to a child."