The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

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.

You can never get enough of what you really don't want. Identify what it is you're actually craving. This will save Time, Energy and Resources.

The worm’s bad luck is the bird’s good fortune.

Pay no attention to what the critics say

Sometimes words aren't needed.

And after that, you don't feel the same toward the other person any longer.

People waste life by wasting time.

When I come to visit my mom - every two or three months - I generally spend five or six hours with her each day. She's always immensely glad to see me, her eldest child, her only son.

I do think the internet has killed the mystery of the planet. It's removed the pain, the passion, and the struggle - I firmly believe they're all part of creativity.

Always when you are about to say anything, first weigh it in your mind; for with many the tongue outruns the thought.

Those who plan do better than those who do not plan, even should they rarely stick to their plan.