“When you reached the summit, you will see that you are still tiny!”

Man can be an atheist only in theory, not in practice, because the universe is too frightening and too chaotic to be too independent!

Heraclitus says you cannot step into the same river twice. We can also say that the same river cannot touch us twice!

A gate to nature is a gate to heaven!

For humans as well as for ships, dark stormy nights are better teachers than tranquil sunny days.

The power of nature can make fun of the power of man at any time!

You can’t win every battle! You must have the word Defeat in your dictionary; if not, defeat will triumph even more strongly!

For someone who doesn’t have the key, the door becomes a wall; for someone who has the key, there is no door!

In dark days, your best shelter is your clever thoughts!

Silence is a giver; it gives some things to you! Noise is a taker; it takes some things from you! Seek for the silence!

You are not superior to others and others are not superior to you. You are only different than others and others are only different than you!

It would be nice to find a ‘planet of trees and birds’ in the space; only trees and birds, millions of different trees and millions of different birds!

Feathers are light; but when they come together, they become heavy!

Every heart has a door; knock it gently! If the door is not opened, leave gently!

Lonely trees are not lonely; they have their eternal companies: Songs of the birds; shadows of the clouds; lights of the Moon; whispers of the winds… Lonely trees are not lonely!

If you feel stronger and good when the weather is sunny and weaker and bad when the weather is cloudy, then it means your willpower is not powerful yet!

The adjective ‘decent’ and the noun ‘government’ have seldom come together in the human history!

We can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

I think we all like to see ourselves as good dads, but there’s also that fear, ‘Oh, I don’t want to be like my father,’ or, ‘I hope my kid doesn’t turn out like me.’ You know, I have those feelings too. So the key is optimism.

It seems now that the place where you see the most obvious censorship is on college campuses.

I think the risks that people see of terrorism are incredibly important but we are very confident we have got the right people on it and the risks have been minimised.

I wish they could see the tenderness in the way the darkness takes the night’s hand.

They seem to sense… that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

We can see that in the inverse relationship exhibited by price/earnings ratios and the rate of inflation in the past.

Lies are often truth-shaped. They’re only containers you must turn inside out and shake till the truth tumbles out, wide eyed and confused, blinking in a light it never thought it would see.