Coincidence may be described as the chance encounter of two unrelated causal chains which - miraculously, it seems - merge into a significant event.

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.

I was tired of being a haunted house' he said. 'Thank you for coming home.

If the truth is inside, And the form is outside, What is the truth of sleep?

The spirit of a man is divine.

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.

The only failure a man ought to fear is failure in cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Blame yourself if you have no branches or leaves don't accuse the sun of partiality.

The life of a dancer is tragically short. What is remarkable about the New York City Ballet is that it makes us forget that. Because it keeps the ballet alive.

Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.

Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

...to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.