Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

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.

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.

Brain-washing starts in the cradle.

How can the bird that is born for joySit in a cage and sing?How can a child, when fears annoy, But droop his tender wing, And forget his youthful spring?

There is a pleasure a bee takes in collecting nectar and piling it into a hive. It knows well that the chores involved in such a task will yield sweet results.

We relegate God to our spare time—but end up never having any spare time! Jesus said, “Seek first his kingdom” [Matthew 6:33 NIV].

I am a rock in a sea of despair and yearning. Take hold of me and together we may form an island of hope and plenty.

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

We do not cease to be children because we are disobedient children.

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

I hate French poetry. What measured glitter!

Make the iron hot by striking it.

You couldn't always trust the history books. They told a diluted truth, a truth by committee.