The external evils are nothing compared to the evils that we harbor in our souls.

Life is a desert of shifting sand dunes. Unpredictable. Erratic. Harmony changes into dissonance, the immediate outlives the profound, esoteric becomes cliched. And vice versa.

A knife wound heals, but a tongue wound festers.

Destiny is a stubborn maiden. She likes herself just the way she is.

Jealousy knows neither morality nor empathy.

I desire to know you. Every breath of your heart, every fleeting look on your face, the rhythm of your joys, and the melancholy of your sorrows.

Evil tempts every soul, but a weak soul tempts evil.

My eyes still swelled with tears, but my heart was dancing the lazgi.

Music is not in the notes but in what is between them.

The hurt is the place where the music enters you.

How easy to be free. How strong we are when we have nothing to lose.

The essence of sin is self-will—placing ourselves at the center of our lives instead of Christ.

Nations rise and fall, flourish and decay, by what they believe in and by what their culture stands for.

The last kiss is given to the void.

I loved, as I still love, the most monotonous life possible.

Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate in your work and in your searching.

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

We were nearly one of the last to realize that in the age of information science the most expensive asset is knowledge.

Little people belittle people. Great people make people feel great.

I'm no respecter of tradition and I have no time for the Manchester Uniteds and Arsenals of this world. There's nothing to admire in these clubs. They're just bullshit worlds full of bullshit people.

Music straightjackets a poem and prevents it from breathing on its own, whereas it liberates a lyric. Poetry doesn't need music; lyrics do.