Albert Einstein

The mind that opens to a new idea never comes back to its original size.

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

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.

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

You never fail until you stop trying.

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

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.

We don’t see things as they are. We see things as we are.

I don’t think I’ve made mistakes. Every time somebody said I made a mistake, they do the polls and my numbers go up, so I guess I haven’t made any mistakes.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

What is the one thing that I could do to help you?

Mr. Watson , come here, I want you

I don’t substitute anybody else’s judgment for my own.

If you want to change the world, start with the next person who comes to you in need.

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

The genius of the American people is Self-Reliance.

We may appear to be mean, but we’re really only frightened.

I don’t let go of concepts – I meet them with understanding. Then they let go of me.

No, I’m not anguished and tormented.

Wide awake and so confused.