You see things less clearly when you open your eyes too wide.

Whenever I look at a mountain I always expect it to turn into a volcano.

There are three things I always forget. Names, faces and... the third I can't remember.

Health doesn't analyze itself, nor does it look at itself in the mirror. Only we sick people know something about ourselves.

Everyone tends to remember the past with greater fervor as the present gains greater importance.

To kill someone, even treacherously is more manly than to wound a friend by betraying his confidence.

It is comfortable to live in the belief that you are great, though your greatness is latent.

Misunderstanding women is a clear sign of scant virility.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

Pain and love - the whole of life, in short - cannot be looked on as a disease just because they make us suffer.

Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.

There is no movement in Nirvana. There is no sameness. And one does not consider it to be timeless because one is not one. It is you, my friend, who go away.

Politics is the gizzard of society, full of gut and gravel.

My dad is a pilot so I think I was born with the travel bug.

Economists, on the whole, think well of what they do themselves and much less well of what their professional colleagues do.

I hear they burn for murder. Well, they say it just takes a second to die.

The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization.

In the emerging world of ethnic conflict and civilizational clash, Western belief in the universality of Western culture suffers three problems: it is false; it is immoral; and it is dangerous.