You opposed fascism, then you ditched communism.'No, I didn’t. Communism ditched me by turning into Stalinism'.

Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.

The jester is brother to the sage.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Politics can be relatively fair in the breathing spaces of history; at its critical turning points there is no other rule possible than the old one, that the end justifies the means.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

In any language it is a struggle to make a sentence say exactly what you mean.

I believe that the evidence for telepathy is overwhelming and that it is a part of reality that is above science. Science allows us to glimpse [only] fragments of reality.

If an infant had the capacity to think hard about this world, it would have wanted to go back to its mother's womb again

We are all not called to be entrepreneurs but we can all be enterprising in our chosen fields

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

The death of childhood is the beginning of poetry.

Success begets more in television.

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

This is servitude, To serve th'unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled.

I don't think Hamlet is mad, nor is he predisposed to be a gloomy or tragic figure.

Leaders on every level should be primarily interested in rendering compassionate caring for others.

It was evening all afternoon. It was snowing And it was going to snow. The blackbird sat In the cedar-limbs.