There are two ways to live your life. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ››I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. ››If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. ››I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university. ››When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. ››The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery each day. ››A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ››If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music. ››The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ››I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ››The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science. ››The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ››If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut. ››When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. ››The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ››
