I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]

The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

A scientist is a mimosa when he himself has made a mistake, and a roaring lion when he discovers a mistake of others.

Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals.

Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.