Imagination encircles the world.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man.

A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned.

The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

Einstein was attending a music salon in Germany before the second world war, with the violinist S. Suzuki. Two Japanese women played a German piece of music and a woman in the audience exclaimed: "How wonderful! It sounds so German!" Einstein responded: "Madam, people are all the same."