Albert Einstein

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.

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

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

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

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.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

The think I remember most about Brooklyn was how much I wanted to get out of Brooklyn.

People living deeply have no fear of death.

It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You’d wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Smugglin’ that by me? That’s like tryin’ to smuggle sunrise past a rooster.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, young and old shared just a little of what he is good at doing.

Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.

I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free.

I like to surprise myself.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

Many unkind people have done kind things. Doing acts of kindness is not the same as occupying kindness, of being kindness.

For them that think death’s honesty won’t fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

[on Diana’s Death] Disbelief, refused to accept it.