Like matter itself, an ideal is mutable, but indestructible. It does not die; it only undergoes a change.

I am the East. I have philosophies, I have religions, who would exchange them for airplanes?

To us all, life is a gift, liberty is a right, and the pursuit of happiness is the object supreme. But our conduct in the pursuit differs in accordance with the measure of justice we uphold. A common measure is only possible when we begin to understand and learn to appreciate each other's point of view and point of direction.

The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won over him - I drew a large circle and included him.

I renounce falsehood, whatsoever be the guise it assumes, and I embrace truth, wheresoever I find it.

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

Our Phoenician ancestors never left anything they undertook unfinished. Consider what they accomplished in their days, and the degree of culture they attained.