I think that I would have made a fine president. But it really came down for me to a very personal, a very intimate and a spiritual decision. I don't rule anything out for the long-term future.

Several incidents in my life have convinced me of spiritual interposition - of the promptings of some beneficent force outside ourselves, which tries to help us where it can.

We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.

Sometimes it is the people who no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.

The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

Why is it that no one understands me and everybody likes me

A ship is always safe at the shore, but that is not what it is built for.

Order is needed by the ignorant but it takes a genius to master chaos.

God always takes the simplest way.

The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

The more success the quantum theory has, the sillier it looks. How nonphysicists would scoff if they were able to follow the odd course of developments!

This is the God of Providence who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes, the God who, according to the width of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even life as such, the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing, who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.