The day of individual happiness has passed

He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery.

Authority, without any condition and reservation, belongs to the nation.

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.

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

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I'll always be poor in my mind.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality

Memory... is an internal rumour.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.

Freedom is from within.

The spirit of man is an inward flame; a lamp the world blows upon but never puts out.

What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

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

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.