The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

As if the dead really do persist, even in a bottle of wine.

If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.

No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.

Sins are timeless. Sins are an everyday reality for every one. Sin has been in existence since the beginning of man, since Adam and Eve. It will always be pertinent.

The world is awful but also the world is beautiful. Human beings are awful, but ultimately human beings are tremendous.

Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

You're the beautiful one. It's society that's ugly.

You have to give in to what the paint says... You have to do what it's telling you to do.

I have no fear, no fear at all. I wake up, and I have no fear. I go to bed without fear. Fear, fear, fear, fear. Yes, 'fear' is a word that is not in my vocabulary.