Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.

The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their culture on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

Europe is no longer Europe, it is 'Eurabia,' a colony of Islam, where the Islamic invasion does not proceed only in a physical sense, but also in a mental and cultural sense.

We are an age without leaders. We stopped having leaders at the end of the 20th century

If a man is a man and not a sheep in the flock, he has a survival instinct in him that leads him to fight even if he realizes he's fighting in vain, even if he knows he will lose.

The increased presence of Muslims in Italy and in Europe is directly proportional to our loss of freedom.

I defend Israel's right to exist, to defend themselves, to not let themselves be exterminated a second time.

No matter what system you live under, there is no escaping the law that it's always the strongest, the cruellest, the least generous who win.

Bear it in mind that people who do not take actions are not and cannot be leaders. Leadership is action.

We must face all our fears and conquer each one of them.

Act on your inner guidance, and give up your need for 'proof' that your inner guidance is authentic. The more you ask for proof, the less likely you are to receive any.

True happiness comes only by making others happy.

I learned early on not to feel badly about reaching out for help, and not to feel embarrassed about saying that you're in over your head.

I reverence the Constitution of the United States as a sacred document. To me its words are akin to the revelations of God, for God has placed his stamp of approval on the Constitution of this land.

Kortchnoi's heritage is many-faceted - over the decades he has several times corrected and changed his style. But the main thing has invariably remained his search for chess truth.

I’d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone.

There is simply the rose; it is perfect in every moment of its existence.

Put an end to so great an evil and arrive at a peace settlement whatever the outcome, and whatever the conditions.