Albert Einstein

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, you think it’s only a minute. But when you sit on a hot stove for a minute, you think it’s two hours. That’s relativity.

It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Let us endeavor to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.

At the end of the day, whether or not those people are comfortable with how you’re living your life doesn’t matter. What matters is whether you’re comfortable with it.

Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.

Nothing is more difficult, in my opinion, than to avoid something that fundamentally attracts you.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.

I cannot discover that anyone knows enough to say what is and what is definitely not possible.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you “deserve” the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.

If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.

Those unproductive hands … may consume so great a share … that all the frugality and good conduct of individuals may not be able to compensate … this violent and forced encroachment.