The single most important decision any of us will ever make is whether or not to believe the universe is friendly.

Where you see difficulty, I see opportunity.

It is not by sitting still at a grand distance and calling the human race larvae that men are to be helped.

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."

I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured.

To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged.

The world we have created is a product of our thinking.