One must be convinced to convince, to have enthusiasm to stimulate the others.
Every wave, regardless of how high and forceful it crests, must eventually collapse within itself.
Only the misfortune of exile can provide the in-depth understanding and the overview into the realities of the world.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
Time to leave now, get out of this room, go somewhere, anywhere; sharpen this feeling of happiness and freedom, stretch your limbs, fill your eyes, be awake, wider awake, vividly awake in every sense and every pore.
In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.
It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.
Freedom is not possible without authority - otherwise it would turn into chaos and authority is not possible without freedom - otherwise it would turn into tyranny.
In chess, as a purely intellectual game, where randomness is excluded, - for someone to play against himself is absurd ... It is as paradoxical, as attempting to jump over his own shadow.