"The key to life is to become skillful enough to be able to do rewarding things."

“All live to die, and rise to fall.”

Source : Christopher Marlowe, Stephen J. Lynch (2015). “Edward II: With Related Texts”, p.73, Hackett Publishing

“It is very difficult to imagine that you can actually get rid of a dictatorship that has been there for 60 years only in 18 days.”

Source : "'Egyptian Jon Stewart' Bassem Youssef Will Now Satirize U.S. Democracy". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 3, 2016.

“But what really is immorality? And what does helping someone really mean? Helping them to be like everyone else, or helping them to be themselves?”

“[D]on't grow old. With age comes caution, which is another name for cowardice.... Whatever else you do in life, don't cultivate a conscience. Without a conscience a man may never be said to grow old. This is an age of very old young men.”

“I don't like being forced to reduce my thoughts to sound bites.”

“If you do not speak to your teens about the meaning of human sexuality and love, the world will fill the void of your silence with a very contrary message.”

“We want to achieve a new and better order of society: in this new and better society there must be neither rich nor poor; all will have to work. Not a handful of rich people, but all the working people must enjoy the fruits of their common labour. Machines and other improvements must serve to ease the work of all and not to enable a few to grow rich at the expense of millions and tens of millions of people. This new and better society is called socialist society.”

“There can't be a pure myth, especially when the myth has been handed down in the oral tradition. As the stories are told, they change. If the stories don't change they just die.”