Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

The blind cannot see the sun.

Prayerful life, blessed life.

I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing you will never get it.

There is also this benefit in brag, that the speaker is unconsciously expressing his own ideal. Humor him by all means, draw it all out, and hold him to it.

Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation.

Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe, expand your mind.

I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself.

I feel like people are expecting me to fail, therefore, I expect myself to win.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

Without commitment, no price will be low enough. With commitment, no price will be too high.

Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal but which the reader recognizes as his own.