"A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth."

"It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep for your whole life."

"Everything on earth is created for a purpose, it's up to us to find out what purpose each thing serves."

"One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time."

"People are such great mysteries. Just when we think we have understood them, a wonderful new aspect shows in them."

"The love of our private friends is the only preparatory exercise for the love of all men."

"A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes."

"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."

"It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."

"The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not."

"Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion."

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."