Happiness is like those palaces in fairytales whose gates are guarded by dragons: We must fight in order to conquer it.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

Today’s storms usher in tomorrow’s sunshine.

Wisdom is the God-given ability to see life with rare objectivity and to handle life with rare stability.

Government is the political representative of a natural equilibrium of custom of inertia it is by no means a representative of reason.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

You don't help a country by supporting a military regime that denies any sign of democracy, and what defeated Pakistan was its military regime.

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

Do not put forward anything that you cannot prove by experimentation.

I had a battle going on in my head: shall I just enjoy my life and then convert on my deathbed? But I felt I couldn't do that - it was now or never - so I took a step of faith and became a Christian.

So much for modern science and its wonderful discoveries that just about everything can kill you. Life is only a bedtime story before a long, long sleep.

For me, music and sound are both the language and underlying architecture of the cosmos.