A man who doesn't think differently from his time and environment can't grow beyond his time and environment.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

This thing about you that you think is your flaw - it's the reason I'm falling in love with you.

Why fish in the pond when you live right next to the sea?

Some never escape from the imprisoning conviction that a cold or unattainable lover can be persuaded to become warm or attainable if they only discover the key.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

At every turn, when humanity is asked the question, 'Do you want temporary economic gain or long-term environmental loss, which one do you prefer,' we invariably choose the money.

(Those who) impute such actions to God, as make Him resemble the worst of beings, and so run into downright Demonism.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

This constant pressure from record companies to come up with a hit single or something like that, I find completely tiresome.

Consider me the entity within the industry without a history of spitting the epitome of stupidity.

When I go on stage I am just, I don't make any attempts to do anything more than just what makes me comfortable.