To penetrate one's being, one must go armed to the teeth.

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Man's great misfortune is that he has no organ, no kind of eyelid or brake, to mask or block a thought, or all thought, when he wants to.

War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

Nothing beautiful can be summarized.

The universe is built on a plan the profound symmetry of which is somehow present in the inner structure of our intellect.

A great man is one who leaves others at a loss after he is gone.

Love is being stupid together.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

He puts us here to make an eternal difference.He puts us here to show everyone around us how much He loves them.He puts us here to be His hands and feet, His body and His heart.

There really is, for humankind there’s really no such thing as race. There’s different tribes but not different races. We’re all one species.

What is the sweetness of flowers compared to the savour of dust and confinement?

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.

System debugging has always been a graveyard-shift occupation, like astronomy.

For me, there's a big difference between having a baby in your 20s and having a baby in your 40s.

We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon.

With every adversity there is a seed of an equivalent or greater benefit for those who are motivated with positive mental attitude to become achievers.