It was when I entered the military preparatory school and put on its uniform, that a feeling of strength came to me, as if I had become master of my own destiny.

A good teacher is like a candle - it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Science is the most reliable guide for civilization, for life, for success in the world. Searching a guide other than the science is meaning carelessness, ignorance and heresy.

To see me does not necessarily mean to see my face. To understand my thoughts is to have seen me.

Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.

Peace at home is peace in the country. Peace in the country is peace in the world.

He is a weak ruler who needs religion to uphold his government; it is as if he would catch his people in a trap.

Victory is for those who can say "Victory is mine". Success is for those who can begin saying "I will succeed" and say "I have succeeded" in the end.

This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

That's what we all want, isn't it? Power without price.

Our actions are highly magnetic to our thoughts.

The people I admire most hadn't really followed a particular path that was visible when they were on it.

Quite often the social doctors become part of the disease.

An improper art aims at exciting in the way of comedy the feeling of desire but the feeling which is proper to comic art is the feeling of joy.

Carbon is the currency of how you measure climate change, but water will be the teeth.

Our brightest dreams and our greatest fears are just over the horizon.

Russia can never be an empire unless it is in control of Ukraine.

The right to figure things out for yourself is the only true freedom everyone shares. Go use it.