“Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.”

“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking”

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”

“I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university.”

“When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.”

“I feel compelled to say something else to you. There has been a certain ill-feeling between us the cause of which I do not want to analyze. I have struggled against the feeling of bitterness attached to it, with complete success. I think of you again with unmixed geniality and ask you to try to do the same with me. It is a shame when two real fellows who have extricated themselves somewhat from this shabby world do not afford each other mutual pleasure.”

“To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing.”