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.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.

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.

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

You never fail until you stop trying.

A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

I lie and tell you I had a dream about you last night, so it makes it more socially acceptable to reach out to someone I haven’t spoken to in years.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

There is safety in small beginnings and there is unlimited capital in the experience gained by growing.

This morning I woke with my ear pressed between shoulder blades. Every inhale, every drum, every pump, thump of your heartbeat said one thing – home, home, home.

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

[On leaving Brooklyn] I left the day I graduated high school.

Pies, para que los quiero si tengo alas para volar. (“Feet, what do I need them for if I have wings to fly.”)

I don’t have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

We each own one car, and we have a reasonable house. It’s a lovely place to be, but it’s not extravagant.

Common sense needs to be more common.

To resent efficiency is a mark of inefficiency.

Boredom: the desire for desires.