A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.
Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius – and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert Einstein

As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
Albert Einstein

Every sentence I utter must be understood not as an affirmation, but as a question.
Niels Bohr

However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
Frederick Reines

I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.
Frederick Reines

If anybody says he can think about quantum physics without getting giddy, that only shows he has not understood the first thing about them.
Niels Bohr

It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
Niels Bohr

It is difficult for me to believe that quantum mechanics, working very well for currently practical set-ups, will nevertheless fail badly with improvements in counter efficiency.
John S. Bell

Believing that the power to destroy belongs to the Creator alone I affirm… that any theory which, when carried out, demands the annihilation of force, is necessarily erroneous.
James Prescott Joule

The height of the pulleys from the ground was twelve yards, and consequently, when the weights had descended through that distance, they had to be wound up again in order to renew the motion of the paddle.
James Prescott Joule

My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.
Richard Avedon

Sometimes I think all my pictures are just pictures of me. My concern is… the human predicament; only what I consider the human predicament may simply be my own.
Richard Avedon

Happiness is perfume, you can’t pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.
James Van Der Zee

The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told.
Cindy Sherman

In photography there are no shadows that cannot be illuminated.
August Sander

I’ve never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil.
W. Eugene Smith

Never have I found the limits of the photographic potential. Every horizon, upon being reached, reveals another beckoning in the distance. Always, I am on the threshold.
W. Eugene Smith

Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
W. Eugene Smith

Growing up, I didn’t give my grandfather’s photography a second thought. I wasn’t involved in his work, except that I helped my dad print his negatives.
Kim Weston

I didn’t want to travel. I didn’t want to leave my family. I heard all these stories from Dad about not having Edward around when he was young, and I didn’t want that to happen.
Kim Weston

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them. Richard J. Needham

“Give us this day our daily bread” is probably the most perfectly constructed and useful sentence ever set down in the English language. P.J. Wingate

Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. Philip Melanchthen

Don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines. Satchel Paige, 1974

Prayer may not change things for you, but it for sure changes you for things. Samuel M. Shoemaker

Practical prayer is harder on the soles of your shoes than on the knees of your trousers. Austin O’Malley

We have to pray with our eyes on God, not on the difficulties. Oswald Chambers

When a man is at his wits’ end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality. Oswald Chambers

Many people pray as if God were a big aspirin pill; they come only when they hurt. ~B. Graham Dienert

The Lord’s Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart. Frederick Denison Maurice

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. William Inge

Education, like neurosis, begins at home.
Milton R. Sapirstein

Family involvement is a valuable thing and playing together actively can be the ’90s version of it. Instead of just watching, you can do it together… something we don’t spend enough time on. We can motivate and excite each other about fitness.
Alan Thicke

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
Doug Larson

Home life’s great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I’ve reached this sort of wonderful precipice.
Ryan Phillippe

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire

I don’t think my parents liked me. They put a live teddy bear in my crib.
Woody Allen

Parents who are afraid to put their foot down usually have children who step on their toes.
Chinese Proverb

The truth is that parents are not really interested in justice. They just want quiet.
Bill Cosby

Children learn to smile from their parents.
Shinichi Suzuki

Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence.
Plato

Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
Henri Frederic Amiel

What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social position, and more than what anyone else may think about you.
George Matthew Adams

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.
Friedrich Engels

Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists.
Blaise Pascal

For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.
Sun Tzu