Virtue, once bragged about, once you pride yourself upon it, ceases to be such.

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.

Truth breeds power, and truth never perishes.

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.

I try not to dwell too much on a bad marriage.

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

If nothing in this world satisfies me, perhaps it is because I was made for another world.

What did the letter O say to Q? Dude, your dikk is hanging out.

Remember to think of your departed mother always as living, just away in another room of our Father's house.

If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.

No matter what happens in the future, no matter where our paths take us, this moment will be ours.

Enjoy the journey, enjoy every moment, and quit worrying about Winning and losing.

Nature is to be found in her entirety nowhere more than in her smallest creatures.

We're releasing hardened criminals from jails all over California. They don't have the money. They don't have the room anymore. The jails are overflowing so we gotta get rid of somebody.