A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself.

My only genius talent is inquisitiveness.

Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it.

When you sit with a nice girl for two hours, it seems like two minutes; when you sit on a hot stove for two minutes, it seems like two hours. That's relativity.

To me it is enough to wonder at the secrets

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

In the view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human mind, am able to recognize, there are yet people who says there is no God. But what makes me really angry is that they quote me for support of such views. (The Expanded Quotable Einstein, Princeton University, page 214)