Albert Einstein

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

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

When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

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.

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

She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was.

I’ve sworn never to read any reviews ever again except those that are pointed out to me as nice ones. I would say that most of us who are considered in the artist realm just take it so terribly, and, you know, it can kill ya!

One of the hardest things for a parent to have to do is to tell your children that your other parent has died.

Never turn your back on enthusiasm.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.

You deserve to give yourself the same love that you give to everyone else.

You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right.

Many people are busy trying to find better ways of doing things that should not have to be done at all. There is no progress in merely finding a better way to do a useless thing.

Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn’t reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could’ve held out a little longer, maybe I could’ve got one.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

I never apologize. I’m sorry, but that’s just the way I am.