Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible.

Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circles of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.

You have to learn the rules of the game. And then you have to play better than anyone else.

The value of achievement lies in the achieving.

I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.

I know quite certainly that I myself have no special talent; curiosity, obsession and dogged endurance, combined with self-criticism, have brought me to my ideas.