Albert Einstein

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

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

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

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

The mind that opens to a new idea never comes back to its original size.

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

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

Old guys can still do fun things.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

I have 100 percent Bronx pride like it’s a country like I AM the Bronx.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

Fate is being kind to me. Fate doesn’t want me to be too famous too young.

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possesion of the truth.

Love cannot be defined, reduced, or ignored. It exists just the same for me, for you, for everyone.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Everything is relative in this world, where change alone endures.

And you know, there’s less charm in life when you think about death–but it’s more peaceful.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.

I do not believe, even remotely, that you have to have a partner in your life in order to be whole, in order to be complete, in order to be fulfilled. You just don’t have to.