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Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern.

Einstein often spoke or wrote about the individual’s place in a greater societal effort, rather than individuals putting their own interests first.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Life is short, and the boulder against which one pushes with all one’s might moves from its spot only with long intermissions.

This 1947 musing reflects the pity that even if long-term progress is consistently moving forward, a person only gets to witness a small amount of it in a lifetime.

Like the man in the fairytale who turned everything he touched into gold, so with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

In speaking to a friend in 1920, Einstein of course was referring to the myth of King Midas. As the legend goes, King Midas eventually hated and cursed his power to turn everything he touched into gold. Einstein himself detested the limelight that his fame brought him.
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton.

May the conscience and the common sense of the people be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

Sadly, we’re still waiting for Einstein’s wish to be fulfilled, almost 60 years after his death. To many, a world without war remains incomprehensible.
Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. And they are both disappointed.
More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...

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