The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

Beauty is variable, ugliness is constant.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss.

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever.

While seeking revenge, dig two graves - one for yourself.

Thoughts are the gun, words are the bullets, deeds are the target, the bulls-eye is heaven.

Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

Being sorry is the highest act of selfishness, seeing value only after discarding it.

No one can drive us crazy unless we give them the keys.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of living high.

In my life, the only certainty is to be uncertain. I'm an unbeliever who believes in skepticism. I'm only sure about being unsure.

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music.

I am much more interested in achieving unison with nature than in copying it.

My interest is not data, it's the world. And part of world development you can see in numbers. Others, like human rights, empowerment of women, it's very difficult to measure in numbers.

I know you [Donald Trump] live in your own reality, but that is not the facts.

If you cannot close the mouth of one who reviles his brother, at least avoid conversation with him.

To be individually righteous is the first of all duties, come what may to ones self, to one's country, to society, and to civilization itself.

I will only accept something as truth if I am actually convinced of it.

I often focus more on language than on the conveying of information.