The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Truth to tell, we are all criminals if we remain silent.

It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.

Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.

All I know is that I shall be alone again. There is nothing more terrible than to be alone among human beings.

There is nothing more vindictive, nothing more underhanded, than a little world that would like to be a big one.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.

Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.

Hairdressers are professional gossips; when only the hands are busy, the tongue is seldom still.

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

If life is a business, then you are blessed with an abundance of capital which is your unconditional love.

It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people.

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

Few can tell what they know without also showing what they do not know.

Good storytelling is humanity's great connector, and it just might keep the world from eating itself.

As fate is inexorable, and not to be moved either with tears or reproaches, an excess of sorrow is as foolish as profuse laughter; while, on the other hand, not to mourn at all is insensibility.

The sufferings that fate inflicts on us should be borne with patience, what enemies inflict with manly courage.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.