One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions.

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.

Gratitude is a powerful catalyst for happiness. It’s the spark that lights a fire of joy in your soul.

In my beginning is my end.

Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it.

No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness.

Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.

Affection is like bread, unnoticed till we starve, and then we dream of it, and sing of it, and paint it, when every urchin in the street has more than he can eat.

Somewhere along the way one discovers that what one has to tell is not nearly so important as the telling itself.

Scientific knowledge is an enabling power to do either good or bad — but it does not carry instructions on how to use it.

Once you've had your life burn down, it takes time to be a Phoenix.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.