Albert Einstein

You never fail until you stop trying.

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes you win and sometimes you learn.

The men of always aren’t interested in the children of never.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I’m at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa – I can’t face going to bed. I’m there with the TV on and all the lights on. I’m not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

Be your authentic self. Your authentic self is who you are when you have no fear of judgment, or before the world starts pushing you around and telling you who you’re supposed to be. Your fictional self is who you are when you have a social mask on to please everyone else. Give yourself permission to be your authentic self.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn’t equal the right thing for one day.

Always pack your uniform on top.

Forgiveness is just another name for freedom.

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.

You can do anything, but not everything.

Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation.

If I may venture to be frank I would say about myself that I was every inch a gentleman …

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

Chop your own wood and it will warm you twice.

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.