If our life has a meaning, an aim, it has nothing to do with our personal happiness, but something wiser and greater.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as common hatred for something.

Do silly things. Foolishness is a great deal more vital and healthy than our straining and striving after a meaningful life.

Everything on earth is beautiful, everything -- except what we ourselves think and do when we forget the higher purposes of life and our own human dignity.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

Don't tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.

What a fine weather today! Can’t choose whether to drink tea or to hang myself.

People should be beautiful in every way - in their faces, in the way they dress, in their thoughts, and in their innermost selves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

wealth is one of the keys to open paradise

It is impossible not to be a winner if you place your faith in God and believe in your ability to constantly improve.

Sell your clothes- keep your thoughts.

Chess, like mathematics and music, is a nursery for child prodigies.

Permanence of instinct must go with permanence of form...The history of the present must teach us the history of the past.

The U.S. government is selling $30 billion worth of fighter jets to Saudi Arabia. Yeah, it's part of a new initiative called, 'Operation Regret This In Five Years.'

God is a luxury I can't afford.

Self-analysis always cheats.

The brain is not a bag of traits. It's startlingly complex. There are few or no single genes with a consistent effect on the mind.

The New York Times said, "There are two superpowers in the world: the United States and the world peace movement."