1. A half-truth is more dangerous to the truth than the naked lie.

2. While reading a vaguely written book, you may think, 'Am I a full or the author?' Then it is probably the author because he chose either the wrong form or he was suffering from verbal diarrhea and had not the faintest idea about what he was writing. Discard that book immediately. However, if you stubbornly continue to read, then, you are the bigger full, because the author had had some pleasure while writing the book, but you will be only disappointed while reading it.

3. You can check if your love is fake or real by your wants and actions toward the subject of your love. Your love is real if you are trying to set free the subject of your love and to make her politically equal to you; otherwise, it is fake selfishness. And there is no need for such checking among the peers, for they know about its reality from its first spark.

4. When you pick your winning horse not by its merits (looks, character, and performance) but solely on its pedigree, you will probably lose your bet.

5. Before anything else, any school of thought is a bureaucracy; and the first principle of any bureaucracy is in organizing external chaos. However, to unfold his genius, a founder of a school must first have organized his own thoughts, his internal bureaucracy, before he can materialize those thoughts into the school bureaucracy. Pessimists will assert that any school tries to suppress talented pupils because the latter neglect and transcend their school's bureaucracy. I say that elementary schooling is necessary for the survival of both -- a society and a pupil. However, beyond the basic communicative skills, that school is better which sooner helps its disciple to unfold own genius.

6. Extremism in making sense out of it all usually produces non-sense.

7. People find their happiness in having and successfully solving their problems and not in the boring absence of those problems.

8. Everyone believes in whatever they fear and desire, which crystallizes into their long-lasting interests and values. Then, no amount of demonstrated absurdity would curb them from acting in accord with their belief. Faith may be defined as a reliance on intuition, and knowledge -- as a reliance on reason. Those of us who bind themselves to a system of knowledge that is based on the present day experiences are usually "challenged" and unable to embrace the entire truth, because, our entire experience comes not only through the present life experiences but also through condense experiences of our ancestors, which comprise our intuition. Therefore, you can accomplish a few of your goals with reason, but only with reason and faith you can accomplish them all.

9. Precisely in the proportion, the commoners let the limited bureaucracy to spread limitlessly, they become slaves of that bureaucracy. The greater economical power the commoners cede to the political bureaucrats, the greater power the latter use against the commoners. That's why every year the federal bureaucracy makes more of our decisions, leaves us with less control over our business, thus, turning our active destiny and freedom into our passive fate and slavery.

10. A state is the State only then when you respect and awe its highest hierarchy people; otherwise, it is just another mafia.

11. Trying too hard to reach the deepest ins, you risk knowing all about nothing; but trying too hard to reach the largest outs, you risk knowing nothing about all.

12. Most of their lives, professional poets, writers, and actors live through the condensed lives of others, and thus exaggerations are inevitable in their writings and acting. Therefore, you should consider their ideas with a grain of salt and adopt only those which are confirmed by your own experience.

13. As individuals we are what we are as the social beings by what we do for living, not by what we try to mask as our inability to comply with the survival requirement of a particular social class.

14. You can draw upon your personality or your vague esthetic feelings while you are young, but you must work out your character, your certain ethic that is congruent with the ethic of the majority of your social class, in order to become a spiritually mature adult and citizen.

15. Ethics breeds character, esthetics – personality.

16. Fear hatches hate, fairness breeds respect and friendship.

17. “Jihad”, from Arabic, means “holy war” or rather “exertion” of one’s will against his own demons and against the demons of other people… but, primarily, against his own longings of carnal pleasure. The over indulging of those longings leads to extreme cynicism. And the corrupt leaders become corrupt because they do not trust either themselves or the people… or both. Thereafter, their great cynicism prompts them to seek security of satisfaction of their personal longings for carnal pleasure in the money and not in the will or longings of the people.

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