Albert Einstein

The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler.

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been kindness, beauty, and truth.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Imagination is more important than knowledge, for knowledge is limited while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.

Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.

. . . one of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought.