Everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.

How can any educated person stay away from the Greeks? I have always been far more interested in them than in science.

I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.

To a student: Dear Miss - I have read about sixteen pages of your manuscript . . . I suffered exactly the same treatment at the hands of my teachers who disliked me for my independence and passed over me when they wanted assistants. . . . Keep your manuscript for your sons and daughters, in order that they may derive consolation from it and not give a damn for what their teachers tell them or think of them. . . . There is too much education altogether.

Nothing happens unless something moves.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

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.