Albert Einstein

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

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.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

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

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

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

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.

The universe, at any given point, in any given time, is expanding indefinitely in all directions. So trust me when I say, ‘you are the center of mine.’

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

By a museum, I assume you mean an institution dedicated to the events of Sept. 11 and the aftermath. If that is done with sensitivity, I think it would be most appropriate.

Worry is the most wasteful thing in the world.

You know I don’t wanna come on ungrateful, but that warren report, you know as well as me, just didn’t make it. You know, like they might as well have asked some banana salesman from des moines, who was up in toronto on the big day, if he saw anyone around looking suspicious…

The difference between winners and losers is that winners do things losers don’t want to do.

The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution.

Since when is “public safety” the root password to the Constitution?

You’re only lonely if you’re not there for you.

It is just good practice to do a situational scan and have situational awareness when you are out in the world.

To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.