Our pride and self-importance are European, while our development and actions are Asiatic.

I think human beings must have faith or must look for faith, otherwise our life is empty, empty. To live and not to know why the cranes fly, why children are born, why there are stars in the sky. You must know why you are alive, or else everything is nonsense, just blowing in the wind.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

To judge between good or bad, between successful and unsuccessful would take the eye of a God.

The more refined one is, the more unhappy.