One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow.

Many die too late, and some die too early. Yet strangers soundeth the precept: "Die at the right time!"

What someone is, begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do.

Go through the towns and ask yourselves whether these people should reproduce! Let them go to their whores!

On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.

Sometimes people don't want to hear the truth because they don't want their illusions destroyed.

A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity.