Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

My first wish is to be simple in my actions, truthful in my speech, honest in my opinions, and natural in my behavior. In other words, I want to be clean in mind, heart, and body.

Ignorance and fear are twins whose mother is slavery and whose father is oppression, and the mentality of the whole family is that of slaves.

I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

The West for me means ambition, the East contentment. My heart is ever in one, my soul in the other.

Fire and light compete today in the East. But there is a lot of green firewood in this fire, and there is a lot of smoke in that light.

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.

Self-reliance leads to intellectual independence. Each man must think for himself, must train the mind to think, must habituate the soul to observe and analyze.

Breathless and unharmed, we emerge from the mazes of metaphysics and psychology where man and the soul are playing hide-and-seek.

The heart yields spontaneity; the mind bends to understanding.

The first thing I did was make a mistake. I thought I had understood capitalism, but what I had done was assume an attitude -melancholy sadness- toward it.

He had lovely eyes, really—not assessing, at all, but big and dark and…waiting.

I'm not going to school just for the academics - I wanted to share ideas, to be around people who are passionate about learning.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

It all happened so fast. Someone slammed the brakes and there was no way to go, just straight into it.

When you're my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I'd just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

But one does not forget by trying to forget. One only remembers.

I don't think my religious convictions should be held against me.

No act terminating in itself constitutes greatness.