Anyone can make them cry, but it takes a genius to make them laugh.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone.

I do not need drugs to be a genius, do not take a genius to be human, but I need your smile to be happy.

Perfect love is the most beautiful of all frustrations because it is more than one can express.

Man is an animal with primary instincts of survival. Consequently his ingenuity has developed first and his soul afterwards. The progress of science is far ahead of man's ethical behavior.

More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness.