I asked myself childish questions and proceeded to answer them.

You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it

Only the [Catholic] Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler’s campaign for suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel a great affection and admiration because the Church alone has had the courage and persistence to stand for intellectual truth and moral freedom. I am forced thus to confess that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

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

The world is not threatened by evil people, but by those who allow evil to take place.

Einstein was once asked how many feet are in a mile. Einstein's reply was "I don't know, why should I fill my brain with facts I can find in two minutes in any standard reference book?