Albert Einstein

Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.

The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self.

The individual, if he is to have a happy life, must learn to be content with what he has and to do his best with what he has.

The world is not comprehensible, but it is embraceable: through the embracing of the world, we comprehend it.

Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.

The world is not dangerous because of those who do harm, but because of those who look at it without doing anything.

The distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down in the mind before you reach eighteen.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved by the level of thinking that created them.