You scholars, you're in communication with the devil.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

One's work may be finished someday, but one's education never.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

All things in the world of Nature are not controlled by Fate for the soul has a principle of its own.

Life is an opportunity to find a friend and to be a friend.

Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep – it can't be done abru

I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.

Your greatest asset is your earning ability. Your greatest resource is your time.

I pay taxes in three countries, but can't vote in any of them.

I have only one reader - me. I'm the average reader. If I like it, that's all I worry about.

How much trouble did the Democrats cause for a particular nominee on the way to actually being confirmed.And usually it's very little.

The attack did not succeed as well as I had hoped, no small impediment having been the loss of my right leg.

The more I learned about games, the more frustrated I became because the games weren't very good. I could tell a good game from a bad game. My conclusion was: let's make our own games.