Truth is orphan without matter and matter is impotent without truth.

God is a philosophical black hole-the point where reason breaks down.

The angel within me thrives on the devil within me.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

The world is truly beautiful solely in the eyes of a true philosopher.

If knowledge is my God, doubt would be my religion.

It is human to search for the theory of everything and it is superhuman to find it.

Certainty is the most vivid condition of ignorance and the most necessay condition for knowledge.

The meaning of life is 'the ultimate questioner's vanity.'

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

The stem of greatness sprouts from the seed of sacrifice.

Years later, I learned an English word for the creature that Assef was, a word for which a good Farsi equivalent does not exist: sociopath.

One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.

The law of silence: Speak little. Say only what you must. Speak only when necessary. Your oratory should be deeds, not words. You accomplish: let others talk.

Hillary Clinton will be very weak on the border. She wants people just to flow in terms of illegal immigration. People are going to flow into the country. And it's going to be a disaster.

It is almost as stupid to let your clothes betray that you know you are ugly as to have them proclaim that you think you are beautiful.

For the mother is and must be, whether she knows it or not, the greatest, strongest and most lasting teacher her children have.

The happiest man is the one who finds happiness at home.

The one good thing about failure is that it makes you consider doing things a different way.

If you sacrifice your art because of some woman, or some man, or for some color, or for some wealth, you can't be trusted.

Standing for truth is everything. Truth is power. Don't ever forget that.