Put your future in good hands – your own.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.

The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.

Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations.

We don't need to think more, we need to think differently.

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

When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.