The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

Men trust their ears less than their eyes.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Adversity has the effect of drawing out strength and qualities of a man that would have laid dormant in its absence.

In peace sons bury fathers, but war violates the order of nature, and fathers bury sons.

Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

It is better to be envied than pitied.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

A like may not necessarily mean real impact has been made

Judgment does not necessarily relate to the judiciary system

The new world will be a place of answers and no questions, because the only questions left will be answered by computers, because only computers will know what to ask

I think it's fair to say you can't predict a straight line to victory. You know, there'll be good days and bad days along the way.

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

Legal aid... is fundamental to giving everybody in this country access to justice.

Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate.

Power is a companion it is not easy to part with, when it goes, the zest of life goes with it. With dry eyes and clenched fist, one stares after it, jealous of the next one it will single out.

We start to die when we no longer have the power to choose.

That is the ultimate synthesis - when Zorba becomes a Buddha. I am trying to create here not Zorba the Greek but Zorba the Buddha.