I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right. — Albert Einstein

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When you trip over love, it is easy to get up. But when you fall in love, it is impossible to stand again. — Albert Einstein

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If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. — Albert Einstein

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It is always difficult to give oneself up; few persons anywhere ever succeed in doing so, and even fewer transcend the possessive stage to know love for what it actually is: a perpetual discovery, and immersion in the waters of reality, an unending re-creation.

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You never know what's actually going on in a person's life. You don't know what happened to them before you met them...and that's why they are the way they are. But I do think about it whenever I get in contact with my fans. I know this may be the only time they'll ever meet me. I try to take advantage of that moment and be kind and grateful.

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Champions do not become champions when they win an event, but in the hours, weeks, and months, and years they spend preparing for it. The victorious performance itself is merely a demonstration of their championship character.- Michael Jordan

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Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions. — Albert Einstein

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Don't be afraid to be yourself just because you're not like everybody else in class. If you want to dye your hair green and that's what makes you happy, then dye your hair green, no matter what other people might say about it. Not everybody is going to like you - that's the world we live in; that's reality.

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I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality.

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But what does it matter what reality is outside myself, so long as it has helped me to live, to feel that I am, and what I am?

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