The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even naïve.

May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!

[When asked "Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?"] That is simple, my friend. It is because politics is more difficult than physics.

To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

The world is an evil place to live in. Not for those who do evil, but for those who sit back and allow evil to occur.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ... [By seeking] logical beauty spiritual formulas are discovered necessary for the deeper penetration into the laws of nature.

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe