Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain.

Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

I have always disliked the fierce competitive spirit embodied in that highly intellectual game.

Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948.

The horizon of many people is a circle with a radius of zero. They call this their point of view.

In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room.

Since I have introduced this term I had always a bad conscience. . . . I cannot help to feel it strongly and I am unable to believe that such an ugly thing should be realized in nature.