"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." (Albert Einstein)
"What Life Means to Einstein: An Interview by George Sylvester Viereck," for the October 26, 1929 issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

"Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being."
[Albert Einstein, 1936, responding to a child who wrote and asked if scientists pray. Source: "Albert Einstein: The Human Side", Edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffmann]

"Watch your thoughts; they become words.  Watch your words; they become actions.  Watch your actions; they become habits.  Watch your habits; they become character.  Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."

"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."

"We must be the change we wish to see in the world."

"Nothing is so contagious as an example.  We never do great good or great evil without bringing about more of the same on the part of others."

"Martin Luther King did not say, "I have a strategic plan."  Instead, he shouted, "I have a DREAM!," and, he created a crusade."

"If you can dream it, you can do it." - Walt Disney

 "The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands." - Robert M. Pirsig

"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom." (Albert Einstein)

"I have found that it does not help, in the long run, to begin my inquiries from the standpoint of the world as a problem to be solved.  I am more effective, quite simply, as long as I can retain the spirit of inquiry of the everlasting beginner."

"We often spend so much time coping with problems along our path that we only have a dim or even inaccurate view of what's really important to us."

"By definition, a problem implies that one already has knowledge of what "should be;" thus one's research is guided by an instrumental purpose tied to what is already known.  In this sense, problem solving tends to be inherently conservative; as a form of research it tends to produce and reproduce a universe of knowledge that remains sealed."

"Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself." - George Bernard Shaw 

"The marble not yet carved can hold the form of every thought the greatest artist has." - Michelangelo 

"A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one." - Mary Kay Ash