Albert Einstein

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

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.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.

If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

Experience is what you get when you don’t get what you want.

For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

Every man is entitled to make a darn fool of himself at least once in a lifetime.’ -Regarding Great War Peace Ship

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

If you get good at what you do, part of getting there is enjoying what other players do.

Yet if today has no meaning, the past was a Blank and the future is a Chaos.

[To Robertson] I think you should move to California. Malibu is paradise. You can always change your mind. Why don’t you just let me put this together? I’ll get you a house in the Malibu Colony.

People cannot discover new lands until they have the courage to lose sight of the shore.

There is no chance, no destiny, no fate, that can hinder or control the firm resolve of a determined soul.

Like all things vast and beautiful, I want to know the depths of which you exist. It has never been enough to wade in the shallows.

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

A good man often appears gauche simply because he does not take advantage of the myriad mean little chances of making himself look stylish. Preferring truth to form, he is not constantly at work upon the facade of his appearance.