Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

When you love someone, you love the person as they are, and not as you'd like them to be.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly.

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.

A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction.

Everybody wants to change the world, but nobody thinks about changing himself.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life—becoming a better person.

Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know.

Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

A marvelous feeling -- that you love someone deeply -- and in turn, that person loves you back so sincerely.

Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

There's no such thing as being alone in the universe, and so there's no such thing as creating alone. Everything - every impulse, every creative gift of beauty, everything is a co-creation.

How can anybody who is the head of a nation afford not to be a prag-matist?

A universityeducates the intellect to reason well in all matters, to reach out towards truth, and to grasp it.

I love conversation and the sharing of different thoughts and philosophies. That kind of stuff always makes me happy. I don't mind interviews, either - I like doing them.

Constantly be aware and observing. Always seek to improve yourself and the team.

Revision is its own reward.

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.