Albert Einstein

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

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.

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.

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

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

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.

Common sense needs to be more common.

From the day I arrived, California seemed like an enchanted land.

No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues.

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.

No matter how carefully and assiduously and how deeply you bury shit, the American public will find it and buy it in large quantity, It’s true, absolutely true.

It’s not the time to look for excuses.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

This is not new territory. Stop lights like lullabies write my eulogy.

Isn’t it amazing how easily you can cheat yourself out of the right choices by convincing yourself that you “deserve” the wrong ones? It’s highly illogical when you think about it. You deserve a better life, you deserve better health, and you deserve to lose weight.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

They’re different kinds of challenges depending upon what phase of life I’m in.

Improvements have been coming so quickly that the past is being lost to the rising generation, and it can be preserved only by putting it in a form where it may be seen and felt. That is the reason behind this collection.

I’ve put up with more humiliation than I care to remember.

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.