The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of all true art and science.

Everything is a miracle. It is a miracle that one does not dissolve in one’s bath like a lump of sugar.

Many are the wonders of the world, and none so wonderful as man.

Men willingly believe what they wish.

To ensure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough; a police force is needed as well.

Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.

Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a centaur, a leopard, a wolf, or a bull?

Watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you, because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.

Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to roost.

A miracle entails a degree of irrationality—not because it shocks reason, but because it makes no appeal to it.

All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.

Any serious attempt to do anything worthwhile is ritualistic.

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.