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.

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.

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.

Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.

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

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

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

We live in an era of tremendous facts. And the facts are facts. They are also unpleasant facts, which does not decrease their factual percentage one bit. Our job is to understand them, to recognize their presence, to learn if we can what they signify and not to fall into the error of minimizing facts because they have a bitter flavor.

I don’t believe in killing whatever the reason!

You either get it or you don’t. Become one of those who get it.

Always pack your uniform on top.

If you don’t know what it is you want – and I mean specifically – then you won’t even know when you have it.

Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.

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

Public opinion is held in reverence. It settles everything. Some think it is the voice of God.

I choose you, again and again at the start and finish of every single day, no matter the season, no matter the age. I choose you to struggle and succeed with, to fight and wake up with, to love and grow old with. I choose you, knowing there are still trails we must travel, knowing there are mountains left to climb. I choose you to always be by my side.

The men of always aren’t interested in the children of never.

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

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

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

I Shall Return!