"I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by temperament a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever."

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

"The Jews are a community bound together by ties of blood and tradition, not of religion only."

"He called the patent office 'that worldly cloister where I hatched my most beautiful ideas'."

"The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the sower of all true art and science."