Albert Einstein

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.

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

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

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

Of all the follies the elder generation falls victim to this is the most foolish, namely, the constant criticism of the younger element who will not be and cannot be like ourselves because we and they are different tribes produced of different elements in the great spirit of Time.

You have got to decide, look, this is who I am; this is my best way to present myself, and I’m going to ride that horse to the finish line. Not everybody will like it, but that’s OK.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

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

I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.

I think I am basically a happy person.

Enough or not…it will have to do.

I don’t know anybody so old he can’t do something useful. Just give them a chance and see.

Flawed and (still) worthy.

I have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don’t always agree with them.

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

It is just like man’s vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

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

The little I know I owe to my ignorance.