With luck on your side, you can do without brains.

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

I beg you, reject antiquity, tradition, faith, and authority! Let us begin anew by doubting everything we assume has been proven!

The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.

The fools of the world have been those who have established religions, ceremonies, laws, faith, rule of life.

If the first button of one's coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.

Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.

All things are in the Universe, and the universe is in all things: we in it, and it in us; in this way everything concurs in a perfect unity.

What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?

The gems of philosophy are not less precious because they are not understood.

What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

Fear is the glue that keeps you stuck. Faith is the solvent that sets you free.

Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum.

I would have told them that he lived a life lacking in purpose or direction. Like those aimless rides I took him on. A life lived from the backseat, observed as it blurred by. An indifferent life.

Their dad was the god of thieves, but they were about a stealthy as water buffalos.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

What I remember when I started to write was how I couldn't wait to get up in the morning to get to my characters.

I always say to my religious friends, if a pool had even one turd in it, would you jump in?

I think that our society will not allow anyone to establish a dictatorship again in the future. [Mikhail] Saakashvili will fail.

I went into journalism in a grandiose way. I thought maybe I'd do a little journalism whilst I write the great novel of all time you see -- one has to keep oneself afloat.

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.