[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

To fear man's judgment more than God's judgment is to fear man more than God.

We must exercise ourselves in the things which bring happiness, since, if that be present, we have everything, and, if that be absent, all our actions are directed toward attaining it.

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.

I can press when there needs to be pressed; I can hold hands when there needs to be - hold hands.

I think I've spent so much time playing characters that are so far away from me and learning how to technically build and how to technically put something on top of you.

Cruelty will continue existing on the face of the Earth as long as we have not learned to put ourselves in the place of others.

People who express suicidal feelings are least likely to act on them.

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

This is rather different from the receptions I used to get fifty years ago. They threw things at me then but they were not roses.

The pamphlet was very patriotic. That is, it talked about killing foreigners.