Emotions and Feelings

Make no small plans for they have not the power to stir men’s blood.

If you can't do great things, do small things in a great way. Don't wait for great opportunities. Seize common, everyday ones and make them great.

For every disciplined effort, there is a multiple reward.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

Our aspirations are our possibilities.

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal and then leap in the dark to our success.

Know what you want to do, hold the thought firmly, and do every day what should be done, and every sunset will see you that much nearer the goal.

Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he had imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.

At first glance, his greatest contribution, the League of Nations, appears to have failed. Still, despite the fact that the League was crippled by his contemporaries and rejected by his own country, I have no doubt that Wilson’s work will one day emerge in more effective form.

Hitler appeared, a man with limited intellectual abilities and unfit for any useful work, bursting with envy and bitterness against all whom circumstance and nature had favored over him… He picked up this human flotsam on the streets and in the taverns and organized them around himself. This is the way he launched his political career.

When the Nazis came into power, Einstein I think was faced with a dilemma. Should he continue with his pacifism, or should he do what he could to resist the Nazis in their effort to get control of the whole world?

I do not believe Mme. Curie is power-hungry or hungry for whatever. She is an unpretentious, honest person with more than her share of responsibilities and burdens. She has a sparkling intelligence, but despite her passionate nature she is not attractive enough to present a danger to anyone.

Although he knew who he was; although he was aware of his celebrity, he always took it with humor and always laughed at it and at himself.

He said he would be willing to subscribe to the idea to resist force with force. Because he said otherwise it's like trying to cure a sick tribe of people. You try to cure them, in a way it is too slow. By the time you cure them with pacifism, they're all dead. That's not very efficient.

He loved Jewish jokes. I have told him many, and the thing I wish most is that I would have a record in which I could capture Einstein's laughter when he heard a good Jewish joke. His laughter sounded something like the bark of a contented seal. It was a very strange sound.

When something struck him as funny, his eyes twinkled merrily and he laughed with his whole being… He was ready for humor.

You are the only sort of man in whose existence I see much hope for in this deplorable world.

All of one’s contemporaries and aging friends are living in a delicate balance, and one feels that one’s own consciousness is no longer as brightly lit as it once was. But then, twilight with its more subdued colors has its charms as well.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously.

A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.