“Applauds of the ignorant majority are worthless; applauds of the wise minority are priceless! Look carefully, who are applauding you? Look carefully, who are blessing you? Mud in the ground or stars in the sky?”

If you think life is a smooth sea, you will soon be awakened from this sweet dream by the slap of a bitter wave!

If you want to say something truly new, you must first know everything that has been said in the human history; not half, not ninety percent, but all that has been said! Only then you can say something new, if you can!

Every time I stepped into madness of the crowds, I longed for the wisdom of the loneliness.

No man can claim to be free in real terms unless he is fully in control of his own destiny!

However tired you are, whatever the distance is, move to your target! Even if you move as slow as a snail, you will reach there! Move! Either fast or slow, just move!

When the water is calm, take as much distance as possible with your boat!

Think about the answers of the questions that have not yet been asked! When they are asked, you will have the answers ready!

A deer that knows all the hunting techniques of a lion will never fall prey to a lion!

For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!

Acquaintances are always abundant; friends are always scarce!

Inside the fogs, you think better and thus you see better!

Spring blossoms are fairy tales, autumn leaves are tragic dramas.

For a city to be beautiful, it must have a mysterious air!

Life is a miracle; walking is a miracle; watching the sunset is a miracle; everything is a miracle, because existence is a miracle!

To be a ‘believer’ does not make you superior to others; but to be a ‘humanist’ does make it so!

Wherever you stop, you will stay there. Don’t expect the ground beneath you to move forward!

It is commercial pop that the majority of people understand. A working man’s daughter would not understand blues.

We never said that the majority [of the terrorists] are not Syrians, but we said that the minority is what they call “free Syrian army.” That’s what we said.

If the society today allows wrongs to go unchallenged, the impression is created that those wrongs have the approval of the majority.

The great majority of people in England and America are modest, decent and pure-minded and the amount of virgins in the world today is stupendous.

The market is going to love it. The market always seems to applaud major mergers, even though the vast majority of them don’t work out and don’t increase shareholder value.

You look at [terrorists] faces, they look foreigners, but where are they coming from ? How precise this estimate is difficult to tell, but definitely the majority are Al-Qaeda.

I’m used to being in the minority. I’m a left-handed, gay Jew. I’ve never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.

Since the beginning of the crisis, since the terrorists started to control some areas within Syria, the majority of the Syrian civilians left that areas to join the government areas, not vice versa. If the majority of the Syrians don’t trust the government, they should go the other way.