Albert Einstein

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

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.

Setting an example is not the main means of influencing others; it is the only means.

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

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.

The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

We ought to know more about the families who founded this nation, and how they lived. One way to do this is to reconstruct as nearly as possible the conditions under which they lived.

I’m embarrassed to say a good chick flick – I’m an old romantic.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

When I went to our American history books to learn how our forefathers harrowed the land, I discovered that the historians knew nothing about harrows. Yet our country has depended more on harrows than on guns or speeches. I thought that a history which excluded harrows, and all the rest of daily life, was bunk. And I think so yet.

You are mine, and that means I am on your side even when no one else is.

If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.

If you genuinely want something, don’t wait for it — teach yourself to be impatient.

Right now, make a list of what you admire about yourself- don’t stop until you’ve filled a page. Sit and relish each quality and accomplishment. When you remember how much you have to be proud of, you don’t need to envy others. Instead of wallowing in your jealousy, use your friends’ accomplishments as inspiration to pursue the life you want.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

Invention is the mother of necessity.