Clever man is a chicken; it can fly, but a little. Genius, on the other hand, is a migratory bird; it can fly at high altitudes until He disappears on the horizon!

Seek truth! Seek truth in the darkness, under the oceans, above the clouds; seek it everywhere and every time! Stop deceiving yourself with the untruth, seek the truth!

In winter, you fed the birds; and in summer, do the same thing! In winter, you gave them bread; and in summer, give them water!

Behind your every bad fate, almost always there lie your own stupid mistakes! Behind your every good fate, almost always there lie your own clever deeds! Skies have nothing whatsoever to do with your fate!

When you go upstairs, go up with high spirit; when you go downstairs, go down with high spirit.

History respects revolutions; and yet, if a revolution is progressive, support it; if it is reactionary, resist it!

There aren't four seasons a year in the mountains; there are forty seasons a day up there in those divine altitudes!