“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!”

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!

The wisdom of a lonely tree is higher than the wisdom of the forest, because there is more thinking in it!

There are only two options for a ship: Either to sail to the sea and fight with the waves or rot in a port! The same is valid for the man!

Whether it is sunny or rainy, make your walk to your destination!

In the appendix to my History of the Russian Revolution I give a detailed and documented study of the ideas of the Bolshevik party on the October revolution. This study, I hope, will make it impossible in the future to ascribe to [Vladimir] Lenin the theory of Socialism in a single country.

Of any stopping place in life, it is good to ask whether it will be a good place from which to go on as well as a good place to remain.

To get rid of predestination we have been willing to degrade our God into a godling.

We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn.

Sometimes, all it takes to save people from a terrible fate is one person willing to do something about it. Even if that “something” is a fake bathroom break.

Even one well-made observation will be enough in many cases, just as one well-constructed experiment often suffices for the establishment of a law.

Because i thought i was in love. And when you think you’re in love, you are willing to stick it out and make it work until it is love.

Those who write need that “willing suspension of disbelief “, as Coleridge called it.