“She comes with horns not the moonAnd tail not the comet”

“I've reached a point in life where it's no longer necessary to try to impress. If they like me the way I am, that's good. If they don't, that's too bad.”

“You, the foreign media, have been the companion of my people in its long and painful journey to freedom.”

“Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.”

“Aviation in air, in water and in spirit. Its laws are different in all three cases. The spirit soars the more it weighs and sinks into itself. The heavier the spirit, the higher and farther it flies.”

“Mechanics is a means or discipline for the realization of life, but not life itself. It ought to carry us to life itself.”

“The arts (painting, poetry, etc.) are not just these. Eating, drinking, walking are also arts; every act is an art.”