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."

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.

How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will.

Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience.

Creativity is intelligence having fun.

The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force.