"Beauty is the first test; there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics."

"I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."

"How you behave toward cats here below determines your status in Heaven."

"Metaphors are the weapons of cowards."

"Don't die with the music in you."

"Everyone has a fair turn to be as great as he pleases."

"You have never done enough, so long as it is still possible that you have something of value to contribute"

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."

"A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain."

"What greater grief than the loss of one's native land."

"Houses are built to live in, not to look on; therefore, let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had."

"Many go fishing without knowing it is fish they are after."