Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought.

If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales.

The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind.

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]