Albert Einstein

"Life is like a box of chocolates; the best pieces are always at the bottom."

"A person is smart. People are dumb."

"The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."

"If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut."

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."

"The person who reads lives a thousand lives before he dies."

"The true preparedness is the will to learn and to adapt."

"Curiosity is a delicate little plant which, aside from cultivation, thrives chiefly on wonder."

"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt."

"The most important thing is the name you leave behind."

"To raise new questions requires imagination but little knowledge."

"Life for God may not be like anything we know."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in adapting the world to himself."

"Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events."

"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."

"I would rather be an optimist and find myself mistaken than be a pessimist and discover I was right."

"Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death."

"The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce."

"Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors."

"The most creatively productive person is the one who asks questions."

"A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."

"In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see."

"As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see how utterly inadequate that intelligence is."

"The physicist, the mathematician, and the biologist are exploring the secrets of the living world."

"Only a life lived for others is a life worth living."

"I speak to everyone in the same way whether he is the janitor or the president of the university."

"More the knowledge lesser the ego, lesser the knowledge more the ego."

"It is forbidden to forbid."

"The age of heroes is dead. The age of the gods has failed."

"If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent."