I have oftenregretted my speech, never my silence.

Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be won, through understanding. Our longingfor understandingis Eternal.

I think I could sum up my position on this with therecitation of a brief Russian proverb ‘Doveryai no Proveryai.’ Itmeans trust but verify.

Thework will teach you how to do it.

The mostintense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calmthat is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and theirconflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

Reason is my philosophy, is only a harmony among irrational impulses.

Beforeeverything else, getting ready is the secret to success.

Peoplespend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idledreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill theemptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed tosearch was within.

To exaggrerate is to weaken.

A man who doesn't trust himself can never really trust anyoneelse.

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.

The onesure way to conciliate a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.