We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it.

In the increasingly convincing darkness the words become palpable, like a fruit that is too beautiful to eat.

Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

Terrorism is the tactic of demanding the impossible, and demanding it at gunpoint.

Children are a wonderful gift. They have an extraordinary capacity to see into the heart of things and to expose sham and humbug for what they are.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

There is no real ending. It's just the place where you stop the story.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

Only those with no memory insist on their originality.

True valor lies between cowardice and rashness.

The true test of a man's character is what he does when no one is watching.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.