Albert Einstein

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.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

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.

The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve (or save) the world and a desire to enjoy (or savor) the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

Trouble with the world today is people don’t go to children enough. I don’t like old people. I stay away from them.

Love is not the absence of hate; hate will always exist. Love is holding our head high and forever moving forward with kindness and compassion in spite of what hate may bring, because no amount of darkness can drown out our light if our light has been lit within.

It has been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.

When you don’t have much money, you worry that they’ll just put you in the ground someplace and your loved ones won’t know where you are.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration.

In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.

What’s to be ashamed of? I went through a really rough time, and I am quite proud that I got out of that.

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Feelings are often born from the matrix of conditions beyond your control. Let them just pass through, like a cloud in the sky.

If what you’re doing isn’t working, change it.

You cannot be who and what you are unless you have a lifestyle, both internally and externally, that is designed to support that definition of self.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

I don’t like when there’s too much conversation because I’m shy and it makes me uncomfortable.