Albert Einstein

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.

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.

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

You never fail until you stop trying.

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.

I can’t change history, I don’t want to change history. I can only change the future. I’m working on that.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

The achievement of one goal should be the starting point of another.

People don’t like when you point out to them and remind them that they’re not very smart.

Idleness is the reason for many of our troubles.

You don’t get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

I’m going to go down and take care of the bill. I’m not going to embarrass you, just let me do it. I had such a great time, I just want it to be my treat. [On returning after several minutes red faced] They won’t take my check, I don’t know what we’re going to do. [Robertson said ‘David, what we’ve spent here, we’re going to have to do a lot of dishes.’] I’m going to call Prince Rupert [Loewenstein] and ask him to call the hotel and tell them I’m good for it. Or maybe he can pay the bill and then I’ll pay him back or something. [Prince Rupert vouched for his credit and the hotel agreed to accept Geffen’s check.]

There is an interconnectedness among members that bonds the family, much like mountain climbers who rope themselves together when climbing a mountain, so that if someone should slip or need support, he’s held up by the others until he regains his footing.

Don’t wait until you’re in a crisis to come up with a crisis plan.

Like an enemy I knew as intimately as any friend, I came to know the nagging, constant emptiness of the incongruent life. I ignored myself and lived for people, purposes, and goals that weren’t my own. I betrayed who I was and instead accepted a fictional substitute that was defined from the outside in.

If someone out there doesn’t agree with me, then somewhere a village is missing their idiot.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

Everyone faces the challenge of finding meaning to their suffering.

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past — whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.

Dream is not the thing what you see in sleep, dream is the thing that does not let you sleep.