Quotes from Albert Einstein

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.

Of all the communities available to us there is not one that I would devote myself to, except for the society of true searchers, which has very few living members at any time.

The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of Carnegie?

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Intelligent life on other planets? I'm not even sure there is on earth!

The strange things about growing old is that the intimate identification with the here and now is slowly lost. One feels transposed into infinity, more or less alone.

God is clever, but not dishonest.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate.

Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor.

You have to color outside the lines once in a while if you want to make your life a masterpiece.