“Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is, in fact, a talent: you must be born with it.”

Even while lying, you’ll be believed if you speak with authority.

An artist observes, selects, guesses, and synthesizes.

Man is what he believes.

If there’s any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think.

A good person will feel guilty even before a dog.

In nature a repulsive caterpillar turns into a lovely butterfly. But with human beings it is the other way round: a lovely butterfly turns into a repulsive caterpillar.

The teacher must be an actor, an artist,passionately in love with his work.

All saints have past and all sinners have a future.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Lying is the same as alcoholism. Liars prevaricate even on their deathbeds.

There is something beautiful, touching and poetic when one person loves more than the other, and the other is indifferent.

You confuse two things: solving a problem and stating a problem correctly. It is only the second that is obligatory for an artist.

My holy of holies is the human body, health, intelligence, talent, inspiration, love, and absolute freedom–freedom from violence and falsehood, no matter how the last two manifest themselves.

Life is given only once, and one wants to live it boldly, with full conscious and beauty.

Try to reason about love, and you will lose your reason.

The task of a writer is not to solve the problem but to state the problem correctly.

I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn’t know they had.

University: … a place where rich men send their sons who have no aptitude for business.

I can’t answer either question. But the look she gives me reminds me of the look in the attack dog’s eyes in the aptitude test – a vicious, predatory stare. She wants to rip me to pieces. I can’t lie down in submission now. I have become an attack dog too.

Nobody gets to be good at something without effort, no matter what your aptitude is.

The divine element manifests itself (or show up) in man as well by his aptitude for science, than by his aptitude for virtue.

There is no such thing as a natural puncher. There is a natural aptitude for punching and that is different. Nobody is born the best. You have to practice and train to become the best.

Aptitude for listening urges us to create bridges of communication.

Your attitude is more important that your aptitude.