This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

This [fundamentalism] is not religion. It is obscenity. These are lies, the criminal use of religious power to misguide people.

Only when he has ceased to need things can a man truly be his own master and so really exist.

Real success is success with self. It's not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.

"Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.