And I learned from my own experience that laughter was the most potent weapon: laughter can kill everything.

But you can't plead with autumn. No. The midnight wind stalked through the woods, hooted to frighten you, swept everything away for the approaching winter, whirled the leaves. ("The North")

The only means of ridding man of crime is ridding him of freedom.

The most agonising thing is to drop doubt into a man about his being a reality, three-dimensional - and not some other kind of reality.

You are afraid of it because it is stronger than you you hate it because you are afraid of it you love it because you cannot subdue it to your will. Only the unsubduable can be loved.

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

Happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

knowledge, absolutely sure of its infallibility, is faith

If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.

You can only love something that refuses to be mastered.

Children are the only bold philosophers. And bold philosophers are invariably children.

To forgive is wisdom, to forget is genius. And easier. Because it's true. It's a new world every heart beat.

Become a maniac on a mission: How to succeed in any venture or business .

Where your soul meets your purpose is the azimuth known as your passion and from there you can plot points of inspiration and achievable goals.

Authenticity is the back bone of every dream and the source of open doors.

Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them.

I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue.

I never felt happy with the idea that part of what I do is to be an object to be looked at. I thought of my public persona as an entity separate to myself.

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I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us.

Fanatical religion driven to a certain point is almost as bad as none at all, but not quite.