Albert Einstein

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

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

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

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

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

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

In order to succeed you must fail so you know what to do better the next time.

All begins with you surrounding yourself with the right people—the good and authentic people—and “unsurrounding” yourself with the wrong people. And we both know there are plenty of wrong people in this world.

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

It’s so much easier to tell people what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear.

Most of the sickness in the world is caused by eating too much.

Nostalgia ain’t what it used to be.

Trees are among the most useful things grown.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Flawed and (still) worthy.

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.

I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.

I never wanted this kind of life that I’m still living.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Mistrust the man who finds everything good, the man who finds everything evil and still more the man who is indifferent to everything.