“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born.”

“People like you and me never grow old. We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”

“We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we are born.”

“Throughout his life, Albert Einstein would retain the intuition and the awe of a child. He never lost his sense of wonder at the magic of nature's phenomena-magnetic fields, gravity, inertia, acceleration, light beams-which grown-ups find so commonplace. He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when he could smell an underlying unity. "People like you and me never grow old," he wrote a friend later in life. "We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.”

“No matter how long you stand there examining yourself naked before a mirror, you'll never see reflected what's inside.”

“Do you recall, from your childhood on, how very much this life of yours has longed for greatness? I see it now, how from the vantage point of greatness it longs for even greater greatness. That is why it does not let up being difficult, but that is also why it will not cease to grow.”