Maybe I should tell her that things without meaning are the most beautiful ones. It’s a good sentence, she’ll like it.

Is it possible that even happy moments of pleasure never stand up to a rigorous examination? Possible.

As a result of subduing the forces of nature with the tools that we invent, we find ourselves today at the point where the force of our tools has become a greater concern than the forces of nature.

She, on the other hand, seized things, truly wanted them, was passionate about them, played for all or nothing, and wasn’t afraid of contempt, mockery, spitting, beatings.

Maybe we really are made of the same clay, maybe we really are condemned, blameless, to the same, identical mediocrity.

Religion will disappear from men's consciousness when, finally, we have constructed a world of equals, without class distinctions, and with a sound of scientific conception of society and of life

Humor is the ability to see three sides to one coin.

I always make special notes about evidence that contridicts me: supportive evidence I can remember without trying.

The thing that I do try to convey is, don't do what I did - but ask what I asked.

Accept good advice gracefully - as long as it doesn't interfere with what you intended to do in the first place.

To insist on purity is to baptize instinct, to humanize art, and to deify personality.

Let your heart become so saturated with love that you are able to ride the waves of change with equipoise, and find new meaning in everything that happens.

The flow of energy through a system acts to organize that system.

Don't let where you are be an excuse not to grow.

Tolerance should really be only a temporary attitude; it must lead to recognition. To tolerate means to offend.

I learnt from Hussein how to achieve victory while being oppressed.