One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

Nationalism is the measels of mankind.

One picture is worth a thousand words

The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge.

Student: Dr. Einstein, Aren't these the same questions as last year's [physics] final exam? Dr. Einstein: Yes; But this year the answers are different.

The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.