Albert Einstein

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

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.

You never fail until you stop trying.

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism — how passionately I hate them!

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.

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

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! In apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals!

Suppression of progress plays into the hands of the social enemy. Every advance in social justice establishes the nation.

Being both soft and strong is a combination very few have mastered.

Failure is no accident.

Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.

I no longer feel the need of seeking out conscious Americanism. Because we live here and work here, we can be certain that when our music is mature it will also be American in quality.

Wear the old coat and buy the new book.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face.

Life is not about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Sometimes you’ve just gotta give yourself what you wish you were getting from someone else.

There is power in forgiveness.

Since the past is unreal and the future is unreal, all your thoughts are about nothing.

Now payback is a bad bitch and baby, I’m the baddest.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?