This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.

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.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Sovereignty is not given, it is taken.

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.

When you finally betray me, I hope you care enough to try to kill my yourself.

Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.

I don't have any computers in my studio, it's all analog tape. All analog tape, all old equipment, I mean my mics are like from the 60's and early 70's, everything in there is old.

life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.

All this creative power of the mind amounts to no more than the faculty of compounding, transposing, augmenting, or diminishing the materials afforded us the by senses and experience.

I had this crazy job, though, when I first got to Los Angeles... I answered this ad in the back of the newspaper to be a telephone psychic, and I did that for two days.

A little warning would’ve been nice. You couldn’t have said, ‘Hey, as part of your training today, I’m going to beat you senseless’?

Political correctness gets in the way of all too many things in this country of ours, I am not a subscriber of political correctness by any means, shape or form.

I am a free lover. I have an inalienable, constitutional and natural right to love whom I may, to love as long or short a period as I can; to change that love every day if I please.