Albert Einstein

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

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

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.

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.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!

Join the dance.

Every loss of life is terrible.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life. (The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.)

Life is neither old or new, ancient or modern, but simply more or less vivid-any song or musical composition will live that expresses or reproduces this vividness of life.-From this you will see that I believe that music fills a great place. The teaching of it goes far to restore the balance and richness of life, and-I might add- the unit of life also.

The basically simple things are best, whether it’s automobiles or diets or philosophy.

What gives life its value you can find – and lose. But never posess. This holds good above all for “the Truth about Life.

The Smiths dream into my ear on this lost and lonely morning. I sing along like it is the only prayer I know (forgive me, Mother Mary).

Romanticism implies nostalgia for damaged goods.

A man is as old as his arteries.

Experience is the harvest of life, and every harvest is the result of a sowing. The experience which young people must crave is that of success in some service for which they are naturally fitted.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

This is no dress rehearsal.

I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.

You’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.

It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else’s.