Einstein Albert

Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.

I have become rather like King Midas, except that everything turns not into gold but into a circus.

Since that deluge of newspaper articles I have been so flooded with questions, invitations, suggestions, that I keep dreaming I am roasting in Hell, and the mailman is the devil eternally yelling at me, showering me with more bundles of letters at my head ...

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

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

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

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot.

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

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.