It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.

Formerly no one was allowed to think freely; now it is permitted, but no one is capable of it any more. Now people want to think only what they are supposed to think, and this they consider freedom.

When the ordinary thought of a highly cultivated people begins to regard 'having children' as a question of pro's and con's, the great turning point has come.

Through money, democracy becomes its own destroyer, after money has destroyed intellect.

Fortunately, at the last hour, there were always a few soldiers to save Civilization.

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

What is truth? For the multitude, that which it continually reads and hears.

Optimism is cowardice.

Peace is a desire, war is a fact; and history has never paid heed to human desires and ideals.

The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.

I maintain that to-day many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practise the dull craft of experimental psychology.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?

The quickest way to get over something you loved and lost is to get another one.

And even sadness was also something for rich people, for people who could afford it, for people who didn't have anything better to do. Sadness was a luxury.

There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.

One should never condemn what one cannot understand.

Love is the image of ourself until ourself destroys us.

I think that most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

Qatar is giving 2.8% of our GDP to research. This is something again that is a breakthrough, as nobody was even thinking of research as a tool or component for advancement in this part of the world.

I don't employ Talleyrand when I want a thing done, but only when I want to have the appearance of wanting to do it.