No matter how rich and prosperous, a nation without independence, cannot be subject to any behaviour before the humanity, at a higher level than serving.

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.

God determines the goals of the prosperity before giving prosperity to His children.

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

Taking the Bible too literally is a mistake. It should be read as a guidebook of wisdom and insight.

Having a safe space to imagine and dream and (re)invent yourself is the first step to being happy and successful, whatever road you choose to pursue.

Or as hockey player Sergei Fedorov knows it, 'The day I can legally start telling everyone I am sleeping with Anna Kournikova.'

The Arabs will have to go, but one needs an opportune moment for making it happen, such as a war.

Strike the iron whilst it is hot.

I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.

Sometimes the hitter get a hit, sometimes I strike them out, but in niether case does anyone die.

I feel like I give myself all day long to other people and other things, and I still seem like I have something to write once in awhile. Not often, though.